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Falling VIX doesn’t have to herald a correction in US equities

There may be growing concerns that a correction in the S&P 500 lies around the corner, because the expected volatility of the index has fallen to a pre-pandemic low. This would presumably be because low levels of expected volatility have sometimes been followed by major drawdowns in US equities.

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