The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) jumped to a three-month high of 18.46 yesterday as the Q2 earnings season began with lacklustre reports from Tesla and Alphabet, triggering a sell-off in the US stock market.
A federal judge in Florida on Friday permanently blocked a key part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s anti-woke legislation that would have banned diversity- and race-related training in private workplaces.