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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (10613)	3/16/2023 3:21:32 AM
From: nicewatch	Respond to of 13772

Is Switzerland still a trading powerhouse? Perhaps if Glencore, Vitol and Gunvor disappeared overnight it would dislocate some commodity markets short term and hit some countries like Russia even harder but they already resigned to selling more into China, India and Turkey at a discount, haven't they? There are the banks that underwrite letters of credit for maritime shipping, and won't pretend to know much about that but would guess some non-Swiss banks could or would quickly step in to absorb that business?