Opinion: What the stock market’s ‘black swan’ index hitting an all-time high tells us

In late June the CBOE’s SKEW Index — a.k.a the “black swan” index — hit an all-time high. That reading was more than 40% higher than its average since 1990,…

Stock-market index that led the pandemic-fueled tumble just entered a bear-market for the first time in 2 years

The Russell 2000 index, which gauges the performance of small-capitalization stocks, ended Thursday down more than 20% from its recent high, meeting the commonly used definition of a bear market. The…