Brics stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - five key emerging economies.
BRICs look at our models and think we have gone in the wrong direction.
BRICs led the way: Brazil, Russia, India and China produced 108 of the 214 new names.
Wisdom Tree India turned out 21% gains last year, the best in the BRICs.
Incremental better news in the US simply overpowered the inflation downers in the BRICs.
Individual countries in the big four emerging markets, the BRICs, are doing even better.
Emerging markets, tracked by the EEM, are down 11% as the BRICs are breaking down.
BRICs are buying safer securities like German debt before they start buying Italian debt.
If non-Brics members become shareholders, they may too get some voting rights in the proposed bank.
By 2020, the BRICs are expected to account for nearly 50% of all global GDP growth.
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Despite long term growth fundamentals in the BRICs, this is still a global economy.
"Daughterly guilt, " already substantial across the BRICs, actually exceeds maternal guilt in India and China.
In global terms the "Brics" are newly empowered - Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Because of this, some members of America's Congress look on the BRICs with trepidation.
Russia is now considered the odd one out of the BRICs and you can see why.
The BRICs are giving more through multilateral channels, moving away from their usual government-to-government help.
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In 2011, 8.7% of UK exports went to the Brics, compared with 6% to Ireland.
But Ireland did take a larger share in 2009: 7% compared with 6.6% for the Brics.
Apple has belatedly started to focus on China, although other BRICs are still not on the radar.
The BRICs and the original group of seven rich countries (G7) form natural blocks within the G20.
That sat ill with membership of the high-growth BRICs: Russia, India and China managed between 4.3% and 9%.
The world, including the BRICS at their meeting two weeks ago, are very much counting on US leadership.
Meanwhile, President Bashar al-Assad called on the emerging "Brics" nations to seek an end to the Syrian conflict.
It also called for stability of the dollar and euro, both being major reserve currencies in the BRICs.
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But there are other reasons why the BRICs might damage the global economic system, rather than buttress it.
The rest of the emerging markets category, whipsawed by runaway inflation in the BRICs, fell by 22 percent.
Media hail the Brics as a "global force" for a new world order after the group's summit in Durban.
Going forward, Goldman will continue to choose green investments carefully, just as they choose their investments in the BRICs.
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In South Africa, he will attend the fifth Brics summit from 26-27 March.
In the BRICs and other fast-growing developing countries the gap is already narrowing.
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