MARGIN REQUIREMENT

that part of a security's price that a buyer must pay for in cash. The balance of the price is met by the broker, who, in effect, is supplying a client with a loan. The smaller the margin, the greater the inducement to speculation. Low margin requirements were considered an important cause of the 1929 collapse of the American stock market. In 1934, the Securities Exchange Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the power to regulate margin requirements. The amount has been reset at various times, but in recent years, the Federal Reserve has instituted a 50% margin requirement with a $2,000 minimum.

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No Margin, No Mission: Health-Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence
Book by Steven D. Pearson, James E. Sabin, Ezekiel J. Emanuel; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Health Facilities--Moral And Ethical Aspects, Managed Care Plans (Medical Care)--Moral And Ethical Aspects--United States, Medical Ethics
...with laying out mini- mal ethical requirements which would be easily met. In line...rights and ethics to include new requirements for organization ethics. JCAHO defines...about meeting legal and regulatory requirements, and the activity is often led by lawyers...
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The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-40
Book by Derek Wood, Derek D. Dempster; Hutchinson, 1961
Subjects: Britain, Battle Of, 1940, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations
...genuine transport unsuited for military requirements. Its judgment, as usual, was not particularly...warfare or of up-to- date technical requirements. The ship was under sail but it lacked...of the Navy, not the Air Force. The requirement was for two sets, one for gun ranging...
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Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economics
Book by Edith Kuiper, Jolande Sap, Susan Feiner, Notburga Ott, Zafiris Tzannatos; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Feminist Economics
...necessaries sufficient to meet universal requirements; and, secondly, an economic system...worlds natural resources to the highest requirements of humanity" using "a very small fraction...allow consumer demand, rather than the requirements of creating (future) financial profits...
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Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery
Book by Marshall Jevons; Princeton University Press, 1993
Subjects: Economists--United States--Fiction, Spearman, Henry (Fictitious Character)--Fiction
...his physical condition. The first day he sampled all of these trails and decided that Hawksnest Point best suited his requirement for length and rigor. Hawksnest Point was about three miles long, a winding path that in some places cut through dense...
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Derivatives: Valuation and Risk Management
Book by David A. Dubofsky, Thomas W. Miller Jr.; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Derivative Securities, Risk Management
...Forward Contracts 126 6 2 Margin Requirements for Futures Contracts 128...to account for the initial requirement that the owner pay for that...perhaps because of high initial margin requirements at the ICE, and perhaps because...
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journal articles on: Margin Requirement  - 1934 results

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Margin Requirements, Margin Loans, and Margin Rates: Practice and Principles
Journal article by Peter Fortune; New England Economic Review, 2000
Subjects: Credit management--History, United States. Federal Reserve Board--Laws, regulations, etc.
Margin Requirements, Margin Loans, and Margin Rates...Reserve System establishes initial margin requirements under Regulations T, U, and X. Regulation...rekindled the debate about using margin requirements as an instrument to affect the prices...
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The Truth about Margin Debt
Journal article by Anthony Chan; ABA Banking Journal, Vol. 92, 2000
Subjects: Margins (Security trading)--Statistics, Securities industry--Finance
...Chairman doesnt just raise the margin requirement instead of aggressively pushing...move in the Federal Reserves margin requirement for equities. As the Fed has...Chairman Greenspan has not used margin requirements to quell market exuberance...
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Margin Requirements, Margin Loans, and Margin Rates: Practice and Principles
Journal article by Peter Fortune; New England Economic Review, 2001
Subjects: Margins (Security trading)--Analysis, Securities industry--Analysis
Margin Requirements, Margin Loans, and Margin Rates...shows the history of Regulation T margin requirements since 1940. This figure shows the...percent. The last change in the margin requirements faced by broker-dealer customers...
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Margin Requirements across Equity-Related Instruments: How Level Is the Playing Field?
Journal article by Peter Fortune; New England Economic Review, 2003
Subjects: Margins (Futures trading)--Analysis, Margins (Futures trading)--Models
Margin Requirements across Equity-Related Instruments...costs; others might have higher margin requirements; still others might differ in tax...dimension of those differences--margin requirements. The adoption of different margin...
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Margin Requirements, Price Fluctuations, and Market Participation in Metal Futures
Journal article by Gikas A. Hardouvelis, Dongcheol Kim; Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Vol. 27, 1995
Subjects: Futures market--Research, Margins (Futures trading)--Research, Metals--Securities
Margin requirements, price fluctuations, and market...regulators and economists in using margin requirements as a tool of controlling excessive...Reports recommendations of consistent margin requirements across related markets led to a...
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magazine articles on: Margin Requirement  - 355 results

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Software Analysis
Magazine article by Rod Baker; Futures, Vol. 35, December 2006
Subjects: Automation, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc, Disk operating systems, Futures trading, Margin requirements, Risk assessment, Software packages, United States
...Windows COST: $500.00 Margin requirements for options on equities are...button and you will get the margin requirements for the selected account...position file, calculate the margin requirements and save the new .spn file...
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Naked Risks: Exposing Yourself to the Market
Magazine article by Tim Zurick; Futures, Vol. 35, July 2006
Subjects: Options trading, Profit margins, Rates of return, Risk management, United States
...THE PIE Short options have a margin requirement, just like futures positions...important to remember the net margin requirement for any out-of-the-money short...less margin. The short option margin requirement does vary slightly from day-to-day...
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Taming System Turbulence
Magazine article by James T. Holter; Futures, Vol. 27, September 1998
Subjects: Diversification, Futures trading, Guidelines, Investment policy, Portfolio management, United States
...move a lot relative to their margin requirements. The 21 markets in "Small...often less-than$100 initial margin requirement might be the market for you...balance a portfolio is to use margin requirements. To find how many contracts...
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The Options Dilemma
Magazine article by Tony Elenbaas; Futures, Vol. 35, June 2006
Subjects: Differences, Exchange traded funds, Futures trading, Options trading, Stock index futures, United States
...subset of initial margin. The margin requirements for equity options are well...of the equity equation. The margin requirement for futures options is computed...options, the lower futures margin requirement offers a big advantage versus...
5.
Trading with Ratio Spreads
Magazine article by Randy Frederick; Futures, Vol. 36, March 2007
Subjects: Options trading, Put & call options, Ratio analysis, Spread, United States
...option in full, meet an initial margin requirement and maintain funds in your...strategy will have a naked margin requirement on the short options. * A...strategy will have a naked margin requirement on the short options. Ratio...
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Big Boost in Buying Stocks 'On Margin'
Newspaper article by Patrice Hill; The Washington Times, January 28, 2000
...stock market? One way to find out is to raise the margin requirement," said Edward Yardeni, chief economist with Deutsche...devised ways for their clients to get around the Fed margin requirements. Even without a market crash, the practice of...
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Little Margin of Error for the Small Farmer
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 4, 2004
...fields will be exempt from the cross compliance requirement for a two-metre margin next to hedges and wet ditches. TFA National...measures, we rejected the proposal for a two-metre margin along field boundaries. "We did not feel that...
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No Margin for Error; Higher Mortgage Rates Are Threatening Buy-to-Let Investors as Rental Income Fails to Keep Pace. If You Can't Afford a Long-Term Investment, Don't Get into the Market, Says Lorna Bourke
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 7, 2007
Subjects: Mortgages--Prices and rates, Mortgages--Statistics
...rental cover, but this doesnt leave any margin for running costs, such as insurance...only meet a 100 per cent rental cover requirement, meaning some products carry a whopping...prepared to ignore the rental cover requirements," he says. "Most lenders are prepared...
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Des Plaines Aldermen Wrestling with Residency Requirement Again
Newspaper article by Ames Boykin; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 7, 2006
Subjects: Diethylstilbestrol
...Jason Bajor, have been hired to their new positions since the new requirements took effect. By the time the council took up the residency issue...still stands by residency since voters supported it by a 2-to-1 margin. rboykin@@dailyherald.com
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Leamington Firm Sharply in Focus as Profit Margin Soars; FINANCIAL SERVICES
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 18, 2008
Subjects: Banking industry--Company sales and earnings, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd.--Company sales and earnings
...Sharply in Focus as Profit Margin Soars; FINANCIAL SERVICES...short-lived and the underlying requirement for our customer base to comply with regulatory requirements at all times, irrespective...organic growth at attractive margins," the company said. Focus...
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encyclopedia articles on: Margin Requirement  - 4 results

 
 
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Margin Requirement
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARGIN REQUIREMENT that part of a securitys price...the inducement to speculation. Low margin requirements were considered an important cause...Reserve Board the power to regulate margin requirements. The amount has been reset at various...
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Speculation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...by some Internet and computer company stocks and in the on-line day trading of stocks. See also banking ; margin requirement ; panic . See R. Sobel, Panic on Wall Street (1968); M. Mayer, Markets (1988); C. Kindleberger, Manias...
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Stock Exchange
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...numerous computerized trades are made during a single day, with large gains (and large losses) possible. See also margin requirement . See A. Crump, The Theory of Stock Speculation (1983); D. L. Thomas, The Plungers and the Peacocks: An Update...
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South Africa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...township of Soweto near Johannesburg as a protest against the requirement of the use of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in black...to whites endorsed constitutional reform efforts by a wide margin. However, there was continuing violence by opponents of the...


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