Investors are selling these assets because of systematic risks in the equity markets, but if Brazil starts looking risky by itself, it could pull equities there even lower.

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There will always be systematic risks (the chance of losing money by simply participating in the financial markets), whether due to market gyrations or other, very infrequent events such as the flash crash.

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The country is also facing the systematic risks of a Greek debt bomb blowing up in the EU, making it harder for countries to convince financial institutions to lend at reasonable rates, if at all.

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Despite a tough year for emerging market equities, due in part to high inflation and systematic risks from the core economies, investors still like the long term investment thesis in the emerging markets, by and large.

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The agency treats genetically engineered products as though they pose some inherent, systematic, unique risks, when theoretical considerations, risk-assessment experiments and practical experience make it clear that they do not: A quarter-century-old scientific consensus holds that the molecular techniques of genetic engineering are an extension, or refinement, of less precise and predictable techniques for genetically improved products with which consumers and government regulators have long familiarity and comfort.

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