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Traders bet Wall Street's 'fear gauge' will double in a month

Some are piling into call options on the VIX, in a bet that stock markets are about to get more volatile

Traders bet Wall Street's 'fear gauge' will double in a month
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Stock markets may get less boring very soon.

That's the prediction options traders are making at the moment with bets on future moves in the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX.

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