The s p down. 5 . The nasdaq little changed. The vix is little changed. 37, quite elevated compared to where its been recently, still at its highest since 2015. A lot of investors asking if normal the new after getting used to suppress volatility over the last year or so. 500 overok at the s p the course of the session. We did see that plunge at the open. Before it got closer to the unchanged line. Something interesting that our bloomberg charting team noticed today had to do with not just , whicholatility exacerbated the selloff, but also people taking money out of long volatility vehicles. This looks at the shortterm futures etf daily close and a vix shortterm etn daily close. One of these shorts volatility, one of these double long volatility. We saw money come out of both of those. The folks who were long volatility make money. Made money. We have the spike in the vix. Session,ack to todays in terms of what is holding back further declines in the u. S. Market, part of it has to do