The Dark Side Of Margin Calls
The downturn in the economy is shedding new light on two dreaded and unwanted words no investor wants to hear: margin calls. Recent margin calls – in which shares of stock are bought using borrowed...
View ArticleMargin Call Madness Underway
When stock markets plunged to their lowest level in four years in October, it quickly became news that margin calls were a key culprit to the problem. In the weeks since, the volume of margin calls...
View ArticleMargin Calls, Human Error To Blame For May 6 Crash?
Margins calls? Human error? Whatever the reason, billions and billions of dollars in capital vanished in the blink of an eye on May 6, the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average witnessed nearly a...
View ArticleMF Global Customers to Get More Money Back?
Customers of MF Global could have reason to believe they’ll get more of their money back from the collapsed broker/dealer. James Giddens, the trustee in charge of the firm’s liquidation, is asking a...
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