“Options Market Focused on Jobs and Inflation Over Tariff Reveal”
March 27, 2025
“…Implied volatility for S&P 500 Index options is elevated for a couple of particular days in the next two weeks, signaling greater demand for protection against big market swings then. That kink in the volatility curve is bigger for March 31 — just after the Core PCE Price Index, the Federal Reserve’s favored inflation measure, is released — and for April 4, when monthly US unemployment data come out.
This underscores that investors are paying at least as much attention to economic data that may signal how the labor market and prices are responding to the effects of Trump’s deep cuts across government payrolls and bellicose trade policies as they are to his pronouncements themselves. With recent on- and off-again tariff statements whipsawing markets, it seems more and more that traders are waiting to see what’s real…”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/options-market-focused-jobs-inflation-160000730.html