{"id":20588,"date":"2025-04-04T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20588"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:46:44","slug":"wall-street-volatility-gauge-hits-4-5-year-high-traders-lift-rate-cut-bets-on-china-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20588","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Volatility Gauge Hits 4.5-Year High, Traders Lift Rate-Cut Bets on China Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The VIX index, which shows the equity market&#8217;s expectations for 30-day volatility and is often called Wall Street&#8217;s &#8220;fear gauge,&#8221; rose to 39, the highest since October 2020, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/04\/04\/bitcoin-falls-back-to-usd83k-xrp-sol-doge-surrender-gains-as-china-announces-34-tariffs-on-all-u-s-goods\" target=\"_blank\">China imposed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.<\/a>, data from TradingView show.<\/p>\n<p>The increase, coupled with the sharp sell-off in the U.S. stock-index futures, prompted traders to increase estimates of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts to 116 basis points this year, up from 100 basis points before the China news hit the wires, CME&#8217;s FedWatch tool shows. <\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) traded 0.7% lower on the day at $82,500 at press time, having earlier put in highs above $84,600. Bitcoin&#8217;s 30-day implied volatility, represented by Deribit&#8217;s DVOL index, rose to an annualized 54.6%, the highest in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/1626992e979ff758e71f6e2a61202a5ae5271a50-2390x968.png?auto=format\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VIX index, which shows the equity market&#8217;s expectations for 30-day volatility and is often called Wall Street&#8217;s &#8220;fear gauge,&#8221; rose to 39, the highest since October 2020, after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., data from TradingView show. The increase, coupled with the sharp sell-off in the U.S. stock-index futures, prompted traders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-20588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}