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A New Year's Gift From The VIX

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December 31, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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Cooler heads are prevailing on the last trading day of the year.

Wall Street's "fear gauge," the VIX, looks like it might close below 40 for the first time in three months.

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Kirk Shinkle is a senior editor at U.S. News. He writes daily about ups and downs in equity markets, sectors and stocks. Formerly, he covered business and economics on both coasts for Investor's Business Daily.

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