The market has been on a tear to all-time highs. The S&P (SPY) closed yesterday at 1597.55, its highest close ever. Yet, at the same time there are assets which are trading as one would expect they ...

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Leverage among the funds is the highest it has been since regulators started tracking the data more than a decade ago.

James Chessen makes a strong and fair point that adequate capital alone is not enough to ensure safety and soundness in the banking system ("Leverage Ratios: An Overly Simplistic Capital Measure," May ...

“Give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world.” As Archimedes understood and eloquently explained almost 300 years BC, leverage allows you to amplify greatly the force you are exerting. In ...

Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank NV and chair of the Financial Stability Board. (Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg News) Global financial regulators are warning against “hidden leverage” in the ...