Bitcoin's 30-day implied volatility, represented by Deribit's DVOL index, rose slightly to an annualized 54.57%, the highest in two weeks.

Wall Street's top 'fear gauge' jumped to a fresh eight-month high on Friday as U.S. stocks opened sharply lower after China imposed fresh tariffs on all U.S. goods in response to the Trump administration's sweeping levies.

Wall Street's "fear gauge" is headed for its highest close in more than four years, reflecting escalating unease about the market fallout from President Trump's tariff blitz. The Cboe Volatility Index,

Investors are looking for signs the selling in the U.S. stock market may have reached a crescendo, but say that the check marks are not yet all ticked and there is room for further pain.

A gauge of investor anxiety was surging Friday as a brutal selloff in U.S. stocks continued on rising concern over the large tariffs announced by the White House earlier this week. The Cboe Volatility Index,

Wall Street nosedived for a second straight day on Friday (Apr 4), confirming the Nasdaq Composite was in a bear market and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was in a correction, as an escalating global trade war spurred the biggest losses since the pandemic.

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"The economic pain that will be brought by these tariffs are hard to describe and can essentially take the US tech industry back a decade," Dan Ives said.