Word: actualizing
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...price of put options increases, the implied volatility of those options increases, and so does the VIX. However, if the S&P 500 had moved in the exact opposite direction this year, the VIX would not have been as high even though the S&P 500's actual, realized volatility would have been identical. Volatility is symmetric to market rises and falls, but the VIX is not. Reason: A falling market scares traders into buying put options, but a rising market doesn't equally scare traders into buying call options...
...volatility that investors writing, or selling, options are expecting. In a relatively stable market, the VIX probably does mimic realized volatility fairly accurately, but in desperate times, as investors flock into put options - and greater volatility is possible in the near future - the VIX is an inflated measure of actual volatility...
...mean actual cities where people could live...
...Dubai also provides a rare chance to experiment with health care. On the one hand, because Dubai currently has no academic medical center, researchers get to see the actual effects of different initiatives on the quality of health care delivery, according to Golan. On the other hand, unlike other nations that lack a deep-rooted health care framework, Dubai has the resources to build a first-world health care delivery structure from the ground...
...Tampa, Husani and three co-conspirators working with his Sarasota-based Capital Force, Inc., bilked seven area banks out of $83 million in a mortgage fraud scheme. Between 2003 and 2006, they bought up dozens of properties, used false information to secure mortgages far in excess of the actual property values, then pocketed the difference, which amounted to more than $40 million. The properties went into foreclosure and the banks, as well as the surrounding communities, were left holding the bag. Two of Husani's partners recently pleaded guilty to the conspiracy; another was convicted, and Husani, whose trial...