Margin requirement changes

NexusFi · 2011-09-24T01:48:15-04:00

Call me a conspiracy theorist...but I think there's a number of reasons that could trigger a margin increase. Political pressure, second handed pressure from manufacturers who keep getting pinched by higher Gold prices, large movers and shakers like Goldman trying to generate downward pressure in order to enter long positions.....could be any number of things. Doesn't everyone find it curious that Soros is alumni with the head of S&P, recently dumped non-family capital in order to shroud from the …

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Updated September 24, 2011

Margin requirement changes

September 24th, 2011, 01:48 AM

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CME just hiked gold margins by 21%, silver by 16% and copper by 18%

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