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Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by test_log_5 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:01PM (#11826858)
Tax rates for commodity transactions are low in comparison to other countries. Starbucks executes all their coffee trading out of Geneva.

The commodity trade in Switzerland is as old as the hills.

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Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by MagnumOpus on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:05AM (#11828970)
>old as the hills

About as old as a 166-year-old artificial hillock, yes.

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