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Margin interest hit a massive $595 billion. What’s it mean?

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MishTalk/Mike Shedlock/12-13-2021

“Margin is a coincident indicator of sentiment towards speculation in financial and real assets.”

USAGOLD note: We alluded to the heavy margin debt load in Tuesday’s Daily Market Report. Leverage begets forced selling in a downturn which can exacerbate the trend. Also, as Shedlock points out, when it turns, it could be reflecting an important change in sentiment that feeds off itself.

line chart showing volume of margin debt 1971 to December 2021
Sources: St. Louis Federal Reserve [FRED], Board of Governors Federal Reserve

 

 

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