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Mark Melin
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On a day when US President Donald Trump proclaimed on Twitter that the US government “needs a good shutdown,” Monday’s Credit Suisse interest rate strategy note, “End of spec short story,” is particularly timely. With a potential September government shutdown looming (although Government shutdown risk abating?), the interest rate analysis from Praveen Korapaty, William Marshall and Jonathan Cohn pointed to a Trump defeat over the budget agreement as the world navigates a US Federal Reserve contemplating reducing its bloated inventory of bonds while markets move higher in Europe.

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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.