Some hedge funds say they are offloading all or most of their holdings of stocks as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war wipes out trillions of dollars of market value and forces them to curtail ...

Investors' debt level in margin accounts is at $899.2 billion based on the latest figures released for December by the industry self-regulatory organization, FINRA, on Friday.

"In market selloffs like this, panic and forced selling via margin calls can dominate for a while," said David Seif, chief economist for developed markets at Nomura in New York. "That’s not to ...