There was a lot of fear, and anti-risk trades were put on: Gold, silver, bonds, ten-year notes.

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This tax blueprint, first reported in the Financial Times, includes tough anti-avoidance measures that would catch some trades executed in New York, London, or Hong Kong -- even when no eurozone entity is buying or selling the product.

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He says his Anti-Crisis Settlement and Accounting Centre (ASAC) is more advanced than the rudimentary barter trades so common in post-Soviet markets.

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