The struggle, back then, was a moral one against a nagging dread that the West had nothing more to offer, apart from the satisfaction of greed, than its sterner rival in the East, and that what might remain, between spies, was a pure exchange of tactics, ungilded with sentiment or faith.

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Their customers find their products cheaper than pure resource exchange would imply.

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US-based Van Eck Global in New York likes Russia so much it launched its second pure-play exchange traded fund for that market.

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The iShares MSCI Italy Capped Exchange-Traded Fund is the only pure-play Italian fund available to retail investors.

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Global X Funds, the New York based provider of exchange traded funds, recently launched two new funds: the Global X Pure Gold Miners ETF ( GGGG) and the Global X Oil Equities ETF ( XOIL).

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