Margin Debt Hits Record as Leverage Fears Grow
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- Margin debt jumped 8.5% in May to a new record high, according to Advisor Perspectives' headline.
- Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times are all running near-simultaneous coverage warning that leverage is fueling US stocks to potentially risky heights, with the WSJ framing it as a 'trillion-dollar borrowing binge.'
Why it matters: When three major financial outlets converge on the same leverage warning simultaneously — and margin debt hits a record — it signals the frothiest part of the rally is drawing the most scrutiny, per the cross-coverage pattern in the headlines.
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