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Welcome to the Risk Reversal podcast. I'm Dan Nathan, joined by Guy Adami. Guy, good morning.

Yep, what's going on on this fine Monday? Monday on the opening guy. We have a down opening, a gap down opening. We have Treasury yields at 4.2% that is the 10 year we have your gold 3100 higher

there we have a dixie at 104 we have a vix at 24 things seem a little ripe right here guy

well that's the story i think i mean they're all stories obviously but the vix if you go back and look last week, I think we had a VIX that got

south of 17 at one point. And I know we actually talked about the next round was coming to a theater

near you, and here we are. And the speed with which we've gotten back to 24, I think, should be somewhat concerning, or maybe it's a good thing because, you know,

if we were to get north of 30, maybe that would speak to at some point capitulation on the downside.

But again, the VIX has been a story.

I think it will continue to be a story.

And that's something we've been talking about now for a while.

Yeah, to your point, we had a VIX that almost kissed 30.

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