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Eric Dutram: One of the biggest stories in the investing world over the past few years as been the rise of emerging markets. These countries continue to grow at an impressive clip and are in a much better position from a fiscal perspective than their developed market counterparts. Furthermore, the countries Read more…
Scott Martin: Turkey has become such a key growth market for embattled Franco-Belgian bank Dexia that management is unwilling to sell at any distressed price — even to motivated buyers from Russia (NYSE:RSX) and elsewhere. Read more…
Larry Levinson: Turkey’s lira is continuing to climb in world markets, and is the third-best performing currency against the dollar this year. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Welcome to our world, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). Underperformers in the world’s emerging markets are turning into relative outperformers, and there is still time for traders to catch up. Read more…
Tim Seymour: A recent team-up between Fiat and Turkish car maker Tofas may not generate much in the way of local sales, but it cements the growing role of Turkey as a manufacturer. Read more…
No question, the global stock sell-off has been brutal, hitting high-quality growth markets and weak performers alike. But while global emerging markets as a group, via the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (NYSE:EEM), are down about 12 percent so far in 2011, a few countries are bucking the downtrend and remain in positive territory. Let’s look at why these countries (and the country ETFs that track their markets) are Read more…
Tim Seymour: A French analyst who was very vocal about how badly Turkey’s central bank was handling its monetary policy has basically apologized. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Emerging markets valuations are in an extraordinary place right now, but cooling global growth will make everyone question whether current earnings are sustainable. Read more…
Tim Seymour: An analyst at Standard & Poor’s is making some aggressive comments about the prospect of a hard landing in Turkey. It sounds a bit hysterical here. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Concerns over growth and debt are ravaging many nations in both Europe and the Near East as the sovereign debt crisis continues to wreck havoc on the region. While the issues threaten to take down all of the PIIGS member nations, some emerging markets right outside the Read more…
Tim Seymour: Not all is warm and fuzzy here in the Middle East even though the revolutions of recent months supposedly led to a positive transfer of power in some of the region’s biggest markets. Read more…
In trading on Tuesday, the iPath Short Extended Russell 2000 TR ETN (NYSE:RTSA) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 4.63% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
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