Despite the economy’s struggles in recent years, the three ETFs that focus on Russia – Market Vectors TR Russia (NYSEArca: RSX), iShares MSCI Russia (NYSEArca: ERUS) and SPDR S&P Russia (NYSEArca: RBL) – have held up impressively well, even outperforming other BRIC countries in the last month.
On Monday, a suicide-bomb blast in an international arrival hall at Russia’s busiest airport killed at least 35, report Richard Boudreaux and Gregory L. White for The Wall Street Journal. The attack was seen as a response to the government’s repressive measures and poor economic conditions, though the impact on Russia’s ETFs never materialized.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.
