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by soared 1964 days ago
> These firms should have had no problem continuing allowing purchasing.

Their costs increased 50x overnight - so they definitely should have had problems. DTC required a few percent collateral, and then overnight required 100% collateral on $GME. No business (well, fidelity and a few others weathered it) is able to increase short term liquidity 50x overnight.
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Rebelgecko 1964 days ago
Couldn't they just add a requirement that GME can only be purchased with settled funds? That seems like it would solve the issues mentioned above
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Dma54rhs 1964 days ago
Settled funds means two days that is longer than the whole situation. It was mainly new money anyway so the accusations and anger would be the same?
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criddell 1964 days ago
Their CEO went on CNN and stated there were no liquidity problems at RH.
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astrange 1964 days ago
He said they’d used their credit lines, just that there wasn’t enough of a liquidity problem to affect the rest of the business. And then they got another $1B the next day.
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