That's pretty weird. It sounds like something that had to be improvised on their end. It does seem like there was some outside intervention: - Multiple broker

That's pretty weird. It sounds like something that had to be improvised on their end. It does seem like there was some outside intervention: - Multiple brokerages making these types of decisions, not just one - Brokerages appearing to improvise (i.e. looking strange, maybe not tested out much beforehand) technical ways to send this new message - Brokerage messaging and decision-making policy appearing to be volatile by itself (!) - Claims (nothing substantiated) that e.g. government heads were involved in making the call These factors seem to add up, so it's interesting to watch this unfold.