With a historic drought unfolding in the corn belt of the United States and the price of corn futures rising due to an expected shortfall of corn crops, many traders and investors are wondering how trading corn futures can be done profitably.

With the traditional emerging economies slumping, it is time to take a look at the Market Vectors Africa Index ETF (NYSE:  AFK), which is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that invests in fast growing companies that do business in Africa.

With thousands of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) covering a wide variety of investment types and classes, finding ETFs that make sense for an investment portfolio can be very challenging.  An ETF screener makes finding suitable ETFs for an investment portfolio much easier by providing ETFs that conform to the criteria one is looking for in ETFs.

Mongolia is a land-locked country to the north of China that shares a long common border with the fast growing economy to the south.  Mongolia is heavily influenced economically by China and has a similar high economic growth rate, which makes buying a Mongolia Exchange Traded Fund (Mongolia ETF) an enticing way to cash in on the high growth rate of the region in and around China.