In technical terms, leverage is the ratio between the amount of money you have in your account and the total size of positions the broker allows you to take. You’re using leverage every time you enter ...

The strategic use of debt as leverage has many advantages for business. These include enhanced returns, larger capital and ability to better manage cash flow. However excess leverage can lead to ...

Abstract: Deleveraging is one of the major tasks of the supply-side structural reform. A precise and scientific estimation of China’s macro-leverage ratio (outstanding debts vs. GDP) holds great ...

In technical terms, leverage is the ratio between the amount of money you have in your account and the total size of positions the broker allows you to take. You’re using leverage every time you enter ...

To understand leverage in options trading, we need to look at how options contracts work briefly. An option gives the owner the right (but not the obligation) to buy or sell an asset at a specified ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it was temporarily easing its leverage rules for large banks by exempting certain investments from a key leverage calculation, ...

Leverage in supply management is often portrayed as something akin to either a silver bullet or the Holy Grail, with establishing leverage in negotiations considered paramount to just about everything ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...