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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-28/emerging-stock-funds-post-2nd-week-of-inflows-citi-says.html

EmergingStock Funds Post 2nd Week of Inflows, Citi Says

October 28, 2011, 5:51 AM EDT


http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-27/emerging-markets-bulls-push-calls-to-highest-since-2009-options.html


EmergingMarkets Bulls Push Calls to Highest Since 2009: Options

October 27, 2011, 4:50 PM EDT

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg)-- Options traders are making more bets than any time since 2009 that emergingmarket equities will climb after valuations fell to the lowest levels in threeyears.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/asian-stocks-advance-after-u-s-economic-growth-europe-deal-boost-outlook.html
Asia Stocks Set to Rise Most in a Week Since ’09 on U.S., Europe

A visitor looks at an electronic stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchangein Tokyo. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 1.3 percent to 124.49 as of 9:13a.m. in Tokyo.

A visitor looks at an electronicstock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo. The MSCI Asia Pacific Indexrose 1.3 percent to 124.49 as of 9:13 a.m. in Tokyo. Photographer: TomohiroOhsumi/Bloomberg
Asian stocks rose, sending the regionalbenchmark index toward its biggest weekly gain in more than two years, as thefastest U.S. economic growth in a year and Europe’s debt deal boosted theoutlook for exporters


http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/0/5/167298150.html

BRIEF: South African markets, currency up on news ofeurozone plan

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 27, 2011 (dpa - McClatchy-Tribune Information Servicesvia COMTEX) -- The Johannesburg Top-40 share index was up 2.5 per cent inearly afternoon trading on Thursday, as markets reacted favourably to news thatEuropean leaders had moved closer to solving the eurozone debt crisis.

The all-shares index at Africa's largest exchange was also higher by 2.2 percent, lifted by mining shares on the back of rising gold and platinum prices.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/kenya-markets-idUSL5E7LS2MN20111028

UPDATE 1-Kenyan stocksjump 2 pct, shilling inches up

Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:55am EDT

Stocks rise 4.4 pct in week as foreigners return

* Shilling reverses earlier gains as bank buy dollars
* C.bank mops up shilling liquidity via repos

NAIROBI, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Kenyan shares vaulted 2 percent
on Friday to their highest in five weeks as foreign investors
trooped back to riskier assets in search of bargains, while the
shilling firmed slightly.

The benchmark NSE-20 Share Index added 2.02 percent
to close at 3,450.33 points, last touched on Sept.20, as
overseas investors tapped buying opportunities in agricultural
and banking shares, and buoyed by positive local investor
sentiments following two weekly gains in a row

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