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Which of these reasons was most likely the single cause of the stock market crash?
margin requirement
What were some of the causes of the 1929 stock market crash?
The biggest reason for the stock market crash was margin trading. It's not the ONLY reason for the crash, but it's the biggest. Margin trading is where an investor buys stock with borrowed money. In the 1920s margin trading was unregulated. If you were a really good stock picker and you could convince your broker to loan you 90 percent of the sale price on this super hot stock you wanted to buy a million shares of, it was perfectly legal to do it. Let's talk of maintenance margin. When you buy on margin you have to maintain a certain amount of equity in your account - cash, stocks, pig futures, whatever. If the value of your equity drops below that maintenance margin value you have to put more money in your account. In 1929 the demand to put more money in was called the Broker's Call; today it's a Margin Call but it's the same thing: get down here with a lot of cash in your briefcase or we'll close your account. When stocks started dropping a lot of broker's calls were made to people whose entire net worth was in stocks bought on margin. And a lot of THOSE people were banks, who were leveraged up to their necks in margin-bought stocks.
What is the stock market crash seen as the beginning of?
If you are referring to the stock market crash of 1929, that was the beginning of the Great Depression.
Losses after the stock market crash were believed to be in the?
in the billions
In what year did the stock market crash?
If you're referring to the crash that spawned the Great Depression, it was 1929.
What major event led to Great Depression?
Crash of an overbought, by use of margin buying, stock market
Which situation helped cause the stock market crash of 1929?
People bought stocks on margin. Wages dropped for most workers The housing market declined.
What where two reason for poverty in the 1920s?
Stock market crash due to buying on margin and overextention of credit to buy consumer goods.
What happened before the great depression?
Stock Market crash of 1939 , use of credit , dust bowl , buying on the margin , buying on speculation , bonus army , lynching , hoovervilles ,
Probably the one single cause of the Stock Market crash was the lack of a?
margin requirement
Which of these reasons was most likely the single cause of the stock market crash?
margin requirement
The Great Crash can be attributed to all of the following reasons except?
the small number of people buying stock on margin
What triggered the Great Depressions?
The crash of the stock marketin 1929 and buying on the margin triggered the Great Depression.
How did speculation and buting on margin help to cause the stock market crash in 1929?
easy because the stock market let a lot of people take other peoples money so that is how the stock market crashed. ):
How did high tariffs contribute to the stock market crash?
. They damaged the U.S. economy by angering foreign trade partners
What are three ways that the market can fail?
It can crash if people sell there stocks and yous to much credit and stop buying stock.
The stock market crash triggered the beginning of the Great Depression the worst economic crisis in US history Which factor did not contribute to the crash?
too many ordinary people owning stock
