Leveraged positions in the stock market jumped 18% in one month and topped $1 trillion for the first time. Increasing use of debt to invest can tell us a lot about investors' attitudes. 10 stocks we ...

Margin debt continued to climb to new heights in October, reaching a new all-time high of $1.18 trillion. Read more here.

A margin account is a brokerage account in which the broker lends the customer cash to purchase stocks or other financial ...

Margin debt is hitting record highs and growing at a pace not seen since 1999 and 2007. High levels of margin in the market can worsen natural downturns. Investors are becoming more and more ...

For most of its 27 years as a public company, Amazon investors have been asked to sacrifice profit for growth. That's no longer necessary. In its first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, Amazon's ...

High-frequency trading firms are increasingly relying on their prime brokers to monitor their credit limits in real time, says Noel Singh, head of prime brokerage at SEB. Singh was speaking during a ...