The notes reached a record low hours after Macri's economic advisers laid out a series of desperate measures to try to lighten the debt load. They are forcing investors in short-term notes issued in the local market to accept longer maturities; they will ask foreign bondholders to "voluntarily" push out maturities; and they will plead with the International Monetary Fund to delay the repayment schedule on its record $56 billion loan just a year after getting the bailout.
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