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Argentina's Peso Devaluation First Test Of Free Market Finance Minister Gay

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Mark Melin
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The newly minted government of Argentine President Maurcio Marci is bringing in its much anticipated market friendly administration with a bang. After lifting the nation’s currency controls yesterday, freeing once tightly controlled limits on buying U.S. dollars and allowing its peso to trade on an open market, the result was a dramatic yet expected drop in the currency’s value. But perhaps most interesting is how Argentina's free-market advocate Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay made an accurate estimate as to its likely revised value and how this new face of finance in the region manages going forward.

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With pinpoint accuracy Argentine Finance Minister Gay nails peso valuation

The Argentine peso had...

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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.