Are we panicking yet?

The world is on fire, war and suffering, oil and gas prices are spiking, nuclear threat, deranged presidents and financial markets are down. Is there any end in sight? Depending on the tweets we care to read.

But are we panicking?

Let’s look at some graphs.

CNN’s Fear and Greed index:

And the volatility indices?

Europe:

USA:

My take? I don’t think we were panicking until a week ago (did we believe this was going to be over soon?). But it looks like more fear is (gradually) getting into the market. 

Sources: CNN, Stoxx, yahoo! Finance