Despite All This Year's Stock Market Woes, Wall St's "Fear Index" is Holding

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All it takes is a few short moments of reading headlines for cortisol to begin pumping through your veins. But you may be surprised to know that, despite war, surging inflation, interest rates, and energy prices, fear is actually in relatively short supply.

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) -- the famed "fear gauge" that tracks investor sentiment on Wall Street -- has remained below the level of bear markets of yore.

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Source Fool.com