It also happened at a time of day when margin calls would have snowballed.
At that time, the whole system was in danger of collapsing as margin calls were made.
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Margin calls to traders from their brokers are also forcing liquidation in the market place.
Thornburg faced a similar round of margin calls in August, but was able to meet them.
Deripaska is also dealing with margin calls at his mining company, Rusal, as metal prices plunge.
He reportedly faces several margin calls, which may put his other buyout plans on hold.
Oleg Deripaska, Alisher Usmanov and Suleiman Kerimov all recently faced margin calls--and sharp hits to their wealth.
Buying DCR like shorting crude oil but without the nuisances (such as margin calls and tax issues).
Margin calls occur in the futures markets and traders are forced to abandon their already weak long positions.
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The causes of action related to alleged unexpected margin calls that resulted in losses in two hedge funds.
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The tightened terms "compounded our difficulties and have made it impossible to meet margin calls, " the firm said.
The promise of liquidity was all that was needed to keep margin calls from cratering the financial system.
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As prices plummeted, margin calls went out to many highly leveraged REITs, and one, Criimi Mae, went bankrupt.
This back-up, it is widely assumed, is needed mainly to meet margin calls triggered by the ratings downgrade.
Aubrey McClendon was forced to sell a gigantic stake in his company Chesapeake Energy because of margin calls.
When Enron's stock began to significantly slide, the banks issued margin calls, fearing their loans might be in jeopardy.
Hedge funds and mortgage lenders are faltering on margin calls by skittish lenders.
Soon suspects start piling up like margin calls, including Melanie's amorous former boss and McKnight's own supposed best friend.
But this time the stock market is at a recent recovery high so margin calls are hard to fathom.
Furthermore, liquidation sometimes has occurred when investors have to raise money to meet margin calls in other sagging markets.
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They have no wish to be forced into joining a clearing house and thus into more demanding margin calls.
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Lay maintained his faith through no fewer than 14 margin calls that he had to meet by selling Enron shares.
Weakness in outside markets can compel investors to sell gold to book profits and meet margin calls elsewhere, Lusk said.
In those days it was believed he was meeting margin calls which were common for many folks at that time.
It would have been nice to have cash on hand to meet margin calls, but Harvard had next to none.
Some likely were forced to sell to meet "margin calls, " or cash that brokers demand from clients to keep bets open.
McClendon, like a pack of other super-wealthy businessmen and women the past month, was forced to sell because of margin calls.
To meet margin calls, McClendon rapidly unloaded his Chesapeake stake, much of it at a notable discount to what he paid.
His fictitious portfolio did not just comprise over-the-counter transactions with big banks, where agreed credit limits meant he could avoid margin calls.
By definition, margin calls are most likely to come just as the prices of the holdings you borrowed against are in free-fall.
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