Argentina Finishes Paris Club Negotiations, Swings At Elliott

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Mark Melin
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As Argentina celebrates a “victory” at the Paris Club, its time to sober up because negotiations with Elliott might not be easy. Golf claps as Argentina completes negotiations with sympathetic French Up until 2 AM negotiating, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner received congratulatory golf claps as her country agreed to pay over $9.7 billion in claims over old debt.  In 2001 the country defaulted on bondholders, sticking them with a $95 billion check as they shot out the restaurant door without paying. “It’s clearly positive that Argentina finally resolved this issue” with the Paris Club, Jorge Mariscal, chief investment officer…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.