Now, it's one thing when there isn't
much margin debt, because the margin debt won't influence the likelihood or severity of a crisis.
Stock Market Leverage: How
much margin debt is too much, that it helps create systemic risk?
Not exact matches
This would sharply enhance growth rates during the expansion phase,
much like
margin borrowing enhances returns when market prices are rising faster than the
debt servicing costs, but at the expense of sub-par performance once conditions reverse.
LBO's introduce way too
much debt to allow any of it to ever be re-paid, especially since so many categories in retail operate on low
margins in the first place.
Much of the recent growth in
margin debt has reflected an increase in the average loan size, which has risen by around $ 13,000 to $ 107,000 over the past year.
A decade ago, the company suffered from too
much debt and substandard profit
margins.
I see a Chinese Stock market bubble... Tremendous amount of
Margin debt... I see too
much confidence and bullishness... all of this combining to an aged bull market.
So, if your asset allocation has changed by a wide
margin say +10 %, then redeem that
much amount and shift it to
debt funds / fixed income.
Among these are avoiding companies with too
much debt; looking for a
margin of safety, such as over - 2.0 current ratio (current assets dividend by current liabilities); and seeking stocks trading at low price - earnings ratios and low price - to - book - value ratios.
Again, however, the important feature to observe is not so
much the absolute level, but the cyclical tendency for spikes in
margin debt to accompany overvalued, overbought, overbullish market peaks.
A surfeit of
margin debt can turn a low severity crisis into a high severity crisis, both individually and corporately, the same way too
much debt applied to housing created the crisis in the housing markets.
If
debt and income put you on the
margins when it comes to qualifying for a mortgage, a VA loan's compensating factors can be a valuable benefit and bring you that
much closer to loan approval.