If you see a line of credit attached you've probably got a margin account.
This desperation selling, coupled with non-negotiable demands from lenders for more cash in their margin account.
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Put more simply, in March, commodities exchanges required traders to keep only a fraction of the value of a contract in their margin account.
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If you want to profit by lending shares of a sought-after stock like NovaStar, you may have to first move them (or threaten to) out of your margin account into a cash account where the broker can't touch them without your permission.
However, Day warns that if stock prices were to tumble sharply, that could cause margin-account selling and could limit strength in gold as investors sell profitable assets.
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If your broker borrows your stock in a cash (not a margin) account, he has to ask your permission -- and if anything goes wrong and he can't return the borrowed shares, his firm is on the hook to make you whole.
The enhancement in margin came on account of cost control, reduced bad debt and other factors.
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These events have an average profit margin of 83% and account for nearly three-quarters of contributions.
When the margin of error is taken into account, Labour could actually be behind the Conservatives.
If it falls by a like amount, your investment will be wiped out and your account subject to a margin call.
If you meet your margin requirement with cash, the account will earn interest, but you won't see it: Your broker will pocket it.
Longer term, Kleinbard suggests keeping high-dividend-paying stocks in a separate, all-cash account that has no margin loans, thus keeping the shares off-limits to shorts.
Now here's Wall Street's dirty secret: Brokerage firms are free to lend out any shares that customers put in margin accounts, the kind of account that allows the customer to borrow against his securities.
Still, taking into account estimates of trading volumes and margin payments, it is conceivable that an individual hedge fund, if it had no regard for counterparty risk, could have dominated trading of an individual bank's CDS on any given day.
Pumps, purifiers and waste-management systems now account for 38% of total revenue and 45% of operating margin.
He said a "clear and codified" bill would allow the European Court of Human Rights to apply a "margin of appreciation" in its rulings - where judges are obliged to take into account the cultural, historic and philosophical differences between Strasbourg and the nation in question.
However, its gross margin declined by 30 basis points annually in Q2 2013 to 42.5%, mainly on account of increase in labor costs and unfavorable currency impact.
Former Australian rugby league star Craig Gower opened Italy's account with a penalty from 45 metres in the 26th minute but the 10-point margin was immediately restored as O'Gara slotted from 35 metres.
If Mr. Market trashes your investments in a sudden panic, your margin debts may be "called, " forcing you to sell some of your assets to sustain the minimum account values you committed to under the terms of the loan.
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