Still, Lieber figures as long as mortgage REITs are buying on margin, some risk getting whacked eventually.
Main Street investors trading for their own accounts should be especially careful about buying on margin into these lows.
Clearly, this was due to the wipe-out of speculators on margin who were not buying silver as a monetary reserve, but as a risky trade.
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HighTower brokers also run their own profit-and-loss statements, so instead of keeping 30% to 40% of gross fee production in W-2 earnings, they reap the benefit of all revenue associated with their clients, including interest spreads earned by lending idle cash in cash-rich accounts to other clients buying on margin.
On the margin, they saved it by buying the bonds that had been issued so that they could have the payroll tax cut.
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That's because selling a credit swap is equivalent to buying the corporate bond on margin.
At the same time, he was aggressively buying Chesapeake Energy shares on margin--using borrowed money for the purchases.
If that went nationwide, customers could stop buying bigger, higher-margin pistols.
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Dixons conceded that its profit margins had been squeezed during the reporting period, but attributed this to a change in the mix of products that customers were buying - with low-margin tablet computers selling particularly well - rather than rising costs or price discounts.
Consumers prefer Windows to Android on tablets by a wide margin: 46% of US consumers considering buying a tablet prefer Windows on that tablet, compared with 9% who prefer Android, according to a Forrester study conducted in January 2011.
When the margin increases, it is very revealing about who has been buying and selling and why.
Buying Autonomy also helps HP to move onto higher-margin terrain: the British firm's operating margins exceed 40%.
"At the margin, this could reduce demand, but nobody should have been buying this stuff on the basis there wasn't a material probability of at least one junk rating at some point in the future, " Mr. McNamara said of the bond sale's postponement.
Buying DCR like shorting crude oil but without the nuisances (such as margin calls and tax issues).
Instead of holding pledged stock in trust accounts for its customers, says the complaint, Credit Bancorp put the shares in cash or margin accounts, sold or borrowed against the stock and kept the proceeds, sometimes buying more securities with the money.
By a three-to-one margin, consumer reviews (77 percent) trump editorial reviews (23 percent) in influencing consumer electronics buying behavior.
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In the latter years of Svanholm's regime, the world's big brewers were buying up local brands outside their home markets and then pumping their own premium, high-margin products through the local distribution networks.
Pattern-based analytics can reveal deep insight into what customers are buying, and leverages that to offer and guide customers to the best choices based on availability and product margin.
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