Analysts at Deutsche Bank have ingeniously charted a relationship between the global spread of covid-19 and the stock market’s major fear gauge, called the VIX index. They found a very close relationship between the number of countries with a greater than 5% daily growth in the number of new covid-19 cases and the level of the VIX. Happily, the number of countries with high daily growth rates is coming steadily down, and so has the VIX index. And as the VIX index comes down, so should the wild daily swings recently experienced in the stock market.
Market Stress subsiding
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May 04, 2020