Only one ETF offers a diverse portfolio of stocks with African exposure: Market Vectors Africa Index ETF (NAR:AFK) , whose assets have grown to $109 million since the fund was launched in July 2008.

Market Vectors Africa (AFK) holds companies that are publicly traded in Africa, or that generate a majority of their revenues in Africa.

An ETF that recovered last week after a drubbing that occurred earlier in April is AFK (Market Vectors Africa, Expense Ratio 0.78%), and trading volume has been exceptionally above average for basically the entire month.

The two countries, which are taking part in a meeting with fellow BRICS members - an economic bloc consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are also in talks to extend the local-currency trade agreement to the entire bloc. (source ...

Tim Seymour: Despite the small recovery in emerging markets in the last week, flows are trading hard, especially the whimsical ETF flows. ETFs (aka the marginal buyer) have averaged $-1.1 billion on average last 4 weeks. Interesting that the crowded ...

One investment vehicle that could be of interest is the Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (ARCA:REMX). This fund, which invests in rare earth miners, not rare earth metals themselves, has grown in value by about 10 percent over the past month.

However, if you want to invest in Africa there are only two ETFs SPDR S&P Emerging Middle East & Africa (GAF) and Market Vectors Africa Index ETF (AFK). Both of these ETFs lost money since the beginning of the year. Two contrasting markets are Vietnam ...

The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX) is down 55% from its September 2011 high, while the price of gold is down only about 24%.

It has its operations in South Africa and Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Royal Bank of Scotland ... Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDXJ) is currently trading at $10.91 down -3.2% in pre-market on 1400 shares traded. GDXJ is trading -19.96% ...

While gold miners are being hit across the board�the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) has dropped 43% this year�the South African miners are getting hit even harder. AFP. Gold Fields (GFI), for instance, has dropped 46%, AngloGold Ashanti (AU) has ...