Massachusetts secretary of state and Kevin O'Leary debate Reddit short squeeze
The surge is shares of GameStop and moves Thursday by retail brokerages like Robinhood to restrict trading as a result is dominating the headlines this week. Both Interactive Brokers and Robinhood are planning to ease trading curbs Friday. This comes after Robinhood said Thursday it was raising more than a billion dollars from existing investors. It also drew at least $500 million on a line of credit from a group of banks in order to meet lending requirements from its central clearing house. William Galvin, Massachusetts secretary of state, and Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Shares ETFs and co-host of “Shark Tank," joined "Squawk Box" on Friday to debate whether Robinhood was right to take that move.