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Swiss Zug: Centre of global economic hub
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A Zug-registered firm is building the strategically critical gas pipeline that will link Europe with Russia via the Baltic</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/31/taxavoidance.tax?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Another is the luxury goods group that owns the Cartier, Piaget and Vacheron Constantin brands</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/31/taxavoidance.tax?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">3% of the world's petrol is traded, either as crude oil or refined product, through Zug and the neighbouring town of Baar</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/31/taxavoidance.tax?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Few of the world's cars, clocks or computers would work without the metals that are bought and sold here</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/31/taxavoidance.tax?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">remarkably discreet: no casino; no stretch limos; no exclusive nightclubs. 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