Leverage
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Categories: Finance
The use of various financial instruments or borrowed capital, such as margin, to increase the potential return of an investment or the amount of debt used to finance a firm’s assets. A firm with significantly more debt than equity is considered to be highly leveraged.
Leverage (Wikipedia)
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Leverage or leveraged may refer to:
- Leverage (mechanics), mechanical advantage achieved by using a lever
- Leverage (album), a 2012 album by Lyriel
- Leverage (dance), a type of dance connection
- Leverage (finance), using given resources to magnify a financial outcome
- Leverage (football), a personal foul in American football
- Leverage (negotiation), the ability to influence another side in negotiations
- Leverage (statistics), a concept in regression analysis
