Edit:
Arstechnica piece quotes an unnamed Bitfloor spokesman as follows:
Bitfloor shares its customers' frustration with its bank's delay in providing access to funds currently in Bitfloor's account...
Kind of reminds you of another reason to be interested in Bitcoins in the first place!
Indeed it does. The people who were notified of the closure quickly bought BTC and got the hell out of there. Not clear to me why he didn't halt trading the moment he started notifying people. I had a sell order in for an unreasonably high price at the time, but someone who got notified bought through it, and now I'm stuck with a bunch of USD the banks won't let me touch.
I wouldn't be upset if there hadn't been "favored customer" notification.
I don't think the notification was tp favored customers, but to everyone slowly.