But because the equities market is at such high levels with
a record margin debt, this combination along with the shift in investor sentiment could lead to a significant and dramatic sell - off.
Not exact matches
It is difficult to understand why the
record burden of consumer
debt will be impervious to a rising unemployment rate, particularly when companies are facing a substantial acceleration in wage inflation in recent months as they try to shore up profit
margins - making substantial new layoffs inevitable.
History is testament that
Record NYSE
Margin Debt is the catalyst that can lead to another 1987 - Like Stock market Crash... as it happened in 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2008.
The
record level of
margin debt is an indication to me that we are closer to the end of this run in the equities market than the beginning.
This
record level of
margin debt is indeed a warning sign.
It should be given very a high attention that in July 2007, after the
debt / US GDP NYSE
margin reached its pre-financial crisis high, the S&P 500 just three months later had reached its bull market
record monthly close, and after the
debt / US GDP NYSE
margin in March of 2000 had reach the dot - com bubble peak, the S&P 500 after just 5 months in August of 2000 had reached its secular bull market
record monthly close.
Margin debt is at a
record high.
Wall Street traders borrowed the money to speculate, piling up
record increases in
margin debt.
Last month, Feb we had a
record high of
margin debt....
As of last week, the market remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought conditions, complicated by extremely high leverage through
margin debt, and
record bullishness among institutional investors, according to the Barron's Big Money Poll.
This is certainly no assurance of the market outcome in the present instance, but in the context of an overvalued, overbought, overbullish market with
margin debt near
record highs, it's also not a feature of the present environment that we're inclined to overlook.
As we know M1 / GDP is at all - time
records today (90 cent per dollar of GDP), so
margin debt can potentially rise a lot more in absolute terms to create an uber - bubble!
If a share's genuinely «bad» — say, in terms of excessive
debt, poor
margins, low return on equity, erratic P&L
record, etc. — then logically, those sub-par financial metrics will automatically get incorporated into your stock valuation anyway (in suitably quantitative fashion).
As of end - September 2017,
margin debt on the NYSE was a
record $ 559.6 billion, which is to be expected as U.S. equity indices were also near all - time highs, and stock market peaks and
record levels of
margin debt often coincide.