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...Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is a lot more flexible-lenient-craven than it used to be. When Judd Apatow comedies and the grotty-Guignol The Dark Knight can secure the unrestricted rating, it's clear that the old sheriff has been replaced by a parole board. But if an R means anything, it's that moviegoers get to see the bone-cratering damage a fist can do to a face, get to feel the impact of a body splattering on a pavement, get to appreciate more than the contours of a luscious model who's removing...
...more than just a measure. Where there's volatility, there's money to be made. Investors have been able to trade options on the VIX - essentially, bets against the index's own movements - since the Chicago Board introduced them in 2006. What's more, niche hedge funds set up to wager on rising volatility - New York-based AM Investment Partners, for one - have outperformed the markets as well as conventional funds in recent weeks. If that seems a bit rich, it might be time to add some volatility to your portfolio...
...reasoned trading, some observers think, the wider picture won't be as dark as many people expect. Touati notes, for example, the rescue plans, rate cuts, drop in oil prices, and fall of the euro are all positive developments for businesses. The downward pressure on stock prices across the board, meanwhile, suggests speculative markets are already factoring in anticipated declines in company results as the economy slow down. In other words, Touati says, a lot of the pain now being felt prepares the gain of an eventual rebound...
From stocks to house prices, profits to banks, right now, just about everything seems to be falling. Amid the carnage, though, there's at least one measure you can't keep down: fear. Wall Street's favorite measure of market volatility and investor jitters, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index - VIX for short - briefly topped 80 points for the first time Thursday, as U.S. stocks slipped on a pile of poor economic news. The VIX, dubbed the "fear gauge", eventually closed at a touch under 68, three times the average over its 18-year history. Prior to this past...
...political activists. The scrutiny has been so severe that Deborah Harrington, president of the Woods Fund, has hired a public relations firm. She can't wait until Nov. 4. "We hope that at that point, we can return to normal," she says. Amid the controversy, the fund's board has discussed whether Ayers has become too much of a distraction. But, Harrington says, "We knew who he was, and about his past, when he came on the board. People can change, and he has, and he's been a person we value tremendously...