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rawgabbittoday at 1:21 PM3 repliesview on HN

Supposedly investors are leveraging/borrowing money to buy into AI stocks right now...


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smallmancontrovtoday at 1:58 PM

Oh, yeah, that's cooking lol: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL663067003Q

Speaking of which, I noticed that the big market reversal during the beginning of the Iran war happened right around when ESLR requirements were due to relax. Is this a transmission mechanism for that? Did some of the big brokerages run a big promotion (0% APR on margin debt!) or something?

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mempkotoday at 3:03 PM

Margin debt (debt used to leverage stock buying) Is near record highs, and most of it is flowing into AI stocks ...