Assignment: Discussion-Explaining Emerging Markets and Their Importance

In this assignment, you will discuss the concept of emerging markets in your words. If someone asked you to explain the concept of an emerging market, what would you tell them? Moreover, it is important to know how emerging markets affect the world as well as America financially, politically, and legally.

An emerging market as defined by Kvint (1999) is a country that is transitioning from a dictatorship to a free market. Emerging markets are important to America's economy because emerging markets are part of a hedge funds for investors (there are more than one hedge fund for emerging markets). This emerging market hedge funds reached $121 billion in the first quarter of 2011; thereby demonstrating the popularity for investors, but also showing what emerging markets are doing domestically and globally.

Using the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, do the following:

• Explain in your own words what an emerging market is.
• Explain why emerging markets are important in today's global economic markets.
• Explain the implications of emerging markets on America's financial future. Do emerging markets affect America's financial, political, or legal future? How?

Write your initial response in a minimum of 200-300 words. Apply APA standards to the citation of sources.

Post your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through the end of the module, comment on at least two of your peers' responses.

Do the following when responding to your peers:

• Read all posts from your peers.

• Respond to feedback on your post and provide feedback to other students on their ideas.

• Provide substantive comments by contributing new, relevant information or quotes from course readings, academic and trade journals, company Web sites, or other sources; building on the remarks or questions of others; or sharing practical examples of key concepts from your experiences, professional or personal.

• Make sure your writing is clear, concise, and organized; demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displays accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.