The selling frenzy began as Bitcoin's main exchange, MTGox, struggled to keep up with the volume of trade in the virtual currency.
The main exchange traded funds of the big four emerging markets were mostly fairing better in New York within the first hour of trade.
There have been all sorts of explanations of what caused yesterday's crash - from a problem at the main exchange to a strange incident in which someone called Bitcoinbillionaire apparently started giving away large sums on the social news site Reddit.
However, Bao Viet, Vietnam's largest insurance company, which was privatized in May, is expected to list on a main exchange soon and is worth watching, says Indochina Capital's Chief Executive Peter Ryder, who manages the Indochina Capital Vietnam Holdings fund, a London-traded closed-end.
If not, your broker has to buy shares on the Russian Trading System, Moscow's main stock exchange.
Even Yukos now seems like a distant memory, with the main Russian exchange, the RTS, up 84% this year.
The main bitcoin exchange shut down for 12 hours to install hardware to help it cope with trading volumes.
The main China exchange traded fund, the FTSE China Xinhua 25 (FXI) traded up 0.72 percent on Friday and is now down 0.29 percent year to date.
Dubai's reputation took a beating on Thursday when Swedish regulators said its main stock exchange had broken the law by announcing plans to buy more than 25% of OMX, a week before its official bid.
Dubai's reputation took a beating on Thursday when Swedish regulators said its main stock exchange had broken the law by announcing plans to buy more than 25% of OMX (other-otc: OMGPF - news - people ), a week before its official bid.
The Australian dollar was little changed on the news, while the main Sydney stock exchange was down slightly.
Part of the deal would also see Superglass cancel its shares on the London Stock Exchange main market and transfer to the AIM.
The main bit is an aluminium smelter at Turzunzade, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of the capital Dushanbe, which is Tajikistan's main foreign-exchange earner.
Idit Yaaron, the spokeswoman for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, told CNN that the main site of the stock exchange where the trading takes place was not harmed and operates on a very high level of Internet security.
The country's vital cashew nut crop provides a modest living for most of Guinea-Bissau's farmers and is the main source of foreign exchange.
The main argument for flexible exchange rates that led to their widespread adoption in the early 1970s was that they allow domestic policymakers to adopt policies appropriate to domestic conditions without the artificial constraint of an exchange rate peg.
After all, Mr Thaksin's main measure to help the exchange, which urgently needs much better supervision and tighter disclosure rules, has been to propose putting Thailand's clocks forward an hour, to match those in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Eight companies cited rising costs as their main risk while four cited foreign exchange worries.
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Regulators determined that off-exchange CDSs were the main culprit in the 2008 financial crisis.
Right after the announcements, the main index of the Caracas stock exchange fell by 2.7%.
The value of the Turkish lira took a pounding, as did the main index of the Istanbul stock exchange.
The main index of the Istanbul Stock Exchange fell to its lowest level this year over fears that other Islamic houses might meet the same fate.
Sentiment is likely to remain weak today after the main index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell to a three-year low on Friday amid worries about slowing global growth and a lack of domestic stimulus to offset it.
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Kim Kyong Lim, chief executive of Korea Exchange Bank, the main lender to Hyundai, argues that this should be no problem, since the bank's sub-standard loans stood at less than 18% of its portfolio at the end of June.
The British conglomerate said it was considering a separate listing of Swire Properties Ltd. on the main board of the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The main platinum contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange is 50 ounces, while gold is 100.
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In Bombay, India, exchange officials halted trading after the main index there plummeted more than 11 percent.
For years the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's main financial watchdog, made it hard for electronic-trading networks to register as exchanges.
Arthur Levitt, a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's main (though toothless) market regulator, has called it the worst financial scandal in 50 years.
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Wall Street may also be talking up its e-bond efforts in order to ward off the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's main markets regulator.
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