The Elliott Management method is always the same. He spots an under-listed company, invites himself to his capital, imposes changes in strategy thanks to a battalion of lawyers, which reassures investors and raises the stock market ... then pockets the capital gain. The fund has attacked groups as varied as AT&T, Pernod Ricard or very recently, the Japanese Softbank.

He also attacks states on the verge of bankruptcy, from which he buys securities at bargain prices. He was particularly fierce on Argentina, but also on Peru or Congo-Brazzaville.

>> To read: "They made Argentina fold ... Who are these" vulture "funds?"

From now on, its prey is called Twitter or more exactly Jack Dorsey, the emblematic founder of the social network. An arrival of the fund which nevertheless reassures investors, worried that Jack Dorsey is more interested in the other nugget that he has created, Square, a payment company that relies heavily on Africa.

>> To read: "The CEO of Twitter caught up in the frenzy for Africa and his bitcoin"

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