Raising margin requirements alone would not have much bite, but if margin requirements and interest rates were raised simultaneously, Mr. Greenspan could restore some credibility and send a strong message to the Street.
Gold, which has been steadily climbing this year, fell back on Thursday after margin requirements on gold futures were raised.
The normal margin rate has been raised to 60%, & for a few stocks the margin has been set at 70%.
Around the margins of the lake, which are raised very slightly above the surrounding flat salt plain, there has been deposited a ring of debris made up of wood and plant material, some of it burnt to charcoal, and mixed in with this were artefacts of recent human origin, such as rubber sandals.
Questions might be recorded in the margin of the book, to be raised in discussions or in office hours.
As the administration's national security policy has come under fierce scrutiny, however, it has been raised along the margins.
Note, for example, that at the margin, ₦1.00 spent in employing hired labour yielded a marginal income of just about ₦0.63, while an increase in the number of economically active adult in the farm household by one person will only cause income to be raised, at the margin, by N13, 954 per year showing that labour use in their production system is excessive.
Then, this was followed a discussion about an appropriate safety margin around the regression line and how to use such a safety margin in the advice to indicate when a dike should be raised arises.
That suggests businesses are raising profit margins, which sounds very odd in the middle of a recession.
Several banks have announced this week that they are raising their tracker margins over base rate for new customers, although existing customers with trackers will benefit from the rate cut while savers will undoubtedly see their savings rates cut.
