Not exact matches
Furthermore, there had been a significant rise in hedging activity
leading into the event, with a spike in the cost
of such hedges as
measured by implied option
volatility.
Scrambling to hedge their positions against further losses, investors bid up the prices
of options,
leading to the surge in the VIX, a gauge that
measures the implied
volatility of near - term S&P 500 index options.
This proposal was designed to approximate the interest rate that a large percentage
of the students in the calculation received, even those students who attended four - year programs, and to mitigate any year - to - year fluctuations in the interest rates that could
lead to
volatility in the results
of programs under the D / E rates
measure.