VIX Volatility is Back: Here’s How to Profit from a Complacent Market by Karim Rahemtulla , Options Expert Tuesday, January 5, 2010: Issue #1168 The stock market kicked off 2010 with a bang, as the major indexes used strong manufacturing data to scoot to 15-month highs. As always, though, the movement of the CBOE Volatility Index ( ^VIX ) dipped under the radar. Based on options activity on the S&P 500, this widely watched – but poorly reported – gauge of fear and complacency among investors quietly slumped by more than 6%, edging toward the 20-point mark

Word’s Leaking Out on This Market… by Robert Williams , Publisher Tuesday, January 5, 2010 Before we close the book on 2009 for good, let me share one more fittingly “expect the unexpected” storyline. Options Clearing Corp. reported that a record number of options contracts – 3.6 billion – changed hands last year.

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C hrysler Group LLC said Tuesday 2009 was its worst sales year in 47 years. The struggling auto maker says it sold just over 931,000 cars and trucks last year. Sales last dropped below 1 million in 1962

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T eck Resources Ltd. TCK.B-T , Canada’s largest publicly traded miner, says a major expansion at the Antamina mine in Peru announced Tuesday, will increase production of copper and zinc by nearly a third. The Vancouver-based company said that when the project is completed in 2011, the amount of metal ore processed will increase 38 per cent to 130,000 tonnes a day, and annual production of copper and zinc will increase around 30 per cent.

M ore Canadians are heeding the interest-rate warnings and focusing on curbing their debt loads in 2010. A Manulife Financial poll released Tuesday found that paying down credit cards and lines of credit is growing as a financial priority among Canadians.