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Non-Tech : Derivatives: Darth Vader's Revenge -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David R. Schaller who wrote (332)	10/5/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 2794

Rising interest rates or an increase of maintenance margin. The increase of maintenance may not be overtly announced, it may be done quietly and internally. It is the banks that will call their borrowers and tell them they need to "firm things up".The leveraged arbitrage/hedge funds have been rapidly cleaned up recently either by liquidation of positions or posting of maintenance as a precautionary move. That's not the threat. The threat is the "loyal to the empire" Japanese banks continuing to pull the base out from under the teetering debt and factoring the "good" money into our T market. This action aggravates world financial stability so that markets become illiquid forcing weak sisters to dump since they will perceive they can't hold.