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is now bankrupt.
On edit: we saw this happen to the Duke brothers at the end of "Trading Places." They were so confident the futures market would skyrocket, they bought "on margin" at the opening. When the prices plummeted after the report was announced, they were on the hook for probably ten times the amount they could pay at the "margin call" at trading close, completely wiping them out.
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