Nearly every viable emerging-market country has a site devoted to its market or investments.

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The New York based ETF-focused firm has been trying to get investors interested in sectors and pull them away from hugging the MSCI Emerging Market and country benchmarks.

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Emerging markets overall declined less than those in the United States and while the iShares MSCI Emerging Market Index ( EEM) pulled back 3.7% from its recent highs, some of the emerging-market country ETFs held up much better.

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Much like small-cap stocks (which suffer from a lack of brand name, too), emerging market and foreign developed country stocks can give your portfolio the extra gas it needs.

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The drop in the Egyptian markets also shows the risks of investing in a country-specific emerging market ETF.

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Based on my visits with nanotechnology insiders, research scientists and venture capitalists, I can happily report that, despite the overall gloom gripping the country and the stock market, the emerging nanotechnology business is buzzing with activity.

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Emerging-market investors also point out that Ecuador is a small country, in terms of both population and importance to financial markets.

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The country felt the brunt of the crisis in comparison with its big emerging market peers because Russia is dependent on oil and gas export revenues to fill government coffers.

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IMF, a 30% fall in the American stockmarket, combined with a 15% fall in other rich-country stockmarkets, would mean a further 1% reduction in emerging-market growth in each of the next five years, as world trade slowed.

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The increasing frequency of sectarian violence, some of it fanned by Buddhist extremists, has added a new risk for companies and foreigners operating in the emerging market and is proving to be President Thein Sein's biggest challenge in opening the country to investors.

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With blackouts expected to hit the country by early next year, there's an emerging need for the free market to provide solutions.

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