Wall Street's Mr Risk thrives on traders' ignorance of politics
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RR Phantom
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Subject: Wall Street's Mr Risk thrives on traders' ignorance of politics Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:12 pm
It was 1998 and Russia was on the verge of gaining investors' confidence when oil tumbled to nearly $US10 a barrel.
Foreign creditors dismissed talk of a collapse. Russia had the money to pay its debts, they said, and it wouldn't sacrifice its credibility. Then-President Boris Yeltsin's appointment of a young reformer to manage the crisis was proof.