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As Argentina's Payment Comes Due, Are Negotiations Ahead?

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Mark Melin
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As Bloomberg reports the decade-long battle between Argentina and holdout creditors is coming to a head. Argentina is likely to miss a bond payment that is due today, but the Latin American nation that defaulted on $95 billion in government bonds in 2001 has a 30 day grace period to negotiate its way out of the situation if it so chooses.

As Argentina's Payment Comes Due, Are Negotiations Ahead?

Official day for Argentina's default

The US court recently blocked the government of Argentina from making payments of $539 million to bond holders it had settled with, but the court ruled...

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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.