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Wall Street's 'fear gauge' is doing something unusual as stocks hit record highs

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Stocks are hitting record highs, but according to CNBC, Wall Street's fear gauge—the Cboe Volatility Index—is behaving unusually. The VIX and stocks move together only about twenty percent of the time.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/wall-streets-fear-gauge-i...

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