Emerging market stocks and currencies fell on Wednesday as investors braced for a large U.S. interest rate hike later in the day, while Russia's rouble hit a two-month low after President Vladimir Putin ordered the country's first mobilisation since World War Two. In a significant escalation of the Ukraine war, Putin said he had signed a decree on partial mobilisation and warned that Moscow would respond with the might of all its arsenal if faced with a nuclear threat from the West. The dollar index hit a fresh two-decade high of 110.87 in a safe-haven bid as Putin's announcement hurt...