Word: vix
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they're enjoying these days? That's the question some observers were asking Friday as indices in Asia and Europe posted gains only to decay again as the day progressed. It was a fittingly wacky end to a week that has seen bourses see-saw with unprecedented volatility. The VIX, Wall Street's leading measure of market volatility and investor fears, briefly scaled 80 points for the first time in its 18-year history Thursday, as stocks slid over recession worries...
...modest 128 points, to 8,451.19 - hardly offset the terror of a rambunctious 700-point drop in the Dow at the opening bell. Events were so overwhelming that when the cost of a barrel of oil hit a 13-month low, the news barely registered. At 2 p.m., the VIX - a measure of expected stock-market volatility often taken as a gauge of investor fear - hit an all-time high...
What separates “Summer Sisters” from the genre of pure romance novels—with their similar emphasis on sex—is Blume’s ability to capture the character development that happens over time. The book follows Vix and Caitlin through their teens and into adulthood as they go down very separate paths in life...
...plus for Harvard students, and in a part of the book that I reread once I got here, Vix herself goes to Harvard. Blume certainly did her homework on Harvard life. Vix lives in Weld and then Leverett House and even takes the class “Justice...
...grows up, Vix must decide whether Caitlin—so instrumental to her own development yet so casually hurtful—is worth the pain of maintaining contact...