leverage

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Also read: Buyers finally have leverage in the housing market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

It’s not all grim — home buyers finally have some leverage again in the real-estate market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

The consolidation has given hospital systems leverage to command higher rates during negotiations with health insurers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Video footage of a captured U.S. airman in enemy hands would have handed Tehran a major propaganda tool and a source of leverage at a critical moment in the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

In just the past five years, Bear Stearns’s leverage had gone from 20:1 to 40:1.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis