Unlocking the Playing Field for Emerging Markets

Since the 1980s, emerging markets have opened up to investment from the rest of the world. The combination of China's reforms under Deng, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of dictatorships in Latin America, meant a raft of enactments of new investment-friendly legislation.

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How to Invest Successfully in Emerging Markets

This is not the time to make a quick buck. Anyone thinking of dipping in and out of emerging markets within the year is likely to get burnt, analysts say.

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How to Spot the Bottom in Emerging Market Stocks

My kids love water balloons. We’ll head to the playground, fill ‘em up and let ‘em rip. Most of the time the balloons pop–but not always. Sometimes the balloons fall, bounce and roll along the ground.

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Emerging Markets: Too Much Fun?

This is the point in the year when your friend Fred will come back from some exotic locale and tell you, at great length, how he trained an orphaned wallaby to play the flute. 

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One Emerging Market Sector ETF That’s Having a Great Year

Emerging-markets stocks were still sliding early Wednesday, continuing a drumbeat that has plagued investors all year.

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Old Mutual First-Half Earnings Rise on Emerging Market Sales

Africa’s largest insurer, said profit from continuing operations in the first half rose 14 percent on higher emerging-market sales.  Earnings in the period through June were 555 million pounds ($852 million), compared with 487 million pounds a year earlier, the London-based insurer said today in a statement. 

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Emerging Market Stocks Advance for Third Day on Chinese Services

Emerging market stocks advanced for a third day, led by technology companies, after a report showed that Chinese service industries increased for the first time since March. Brazil’s real led declines in currencies.

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Emerging Markets Play Worth Holding 'Forever'

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  If the two market crashes since the turn of the century have taught us one thing, it is that this proverb is extremely relevant to investing.

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Catching Up Is Hard To Do

 The current print edition contains a briefing on a "great deceleration" across emerging markets. The BRIC economies have been going through a slowdown of late, yes, but while some of that slowdown is just cyclical stumbling some of it reflects the end of a unique era of economic growth—and, more importantly, of catch-up growth by the world's poorer economies.

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Mobile Strategy In Emerging Markets: 10 Tips

Consumers in emerging economies have skipped past stodgy old landlines and PCs straight to mobile phones. But that doesn't mean CIOs in those regions won't run into problems with building the mobile enterprise. 

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