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Philippine stocks rocketed to a nine-month high after a shock interest rate cut. Gain exposure to the country's stocks with these ETFs.

Gainers: Regional Banks Bull 3X Direxion (DPST) +25.0%.Latin America Bull 3X Direxion (LBJ) +13.5%.Philippines Ishares MSCI ETF (EPHE) +10.2%.S&P 500 High Beta Bull 3X Direxion (HIBL) +9.0%.G-X Social Media ETF (SOCL) +8.4%.Losers: Homebuild & Suppliers Bull 3X

Among Southeast Asia's major economies - ASEAN-6 - Indonesia and the Philippines have currently almost 360,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases each. According to WHO's models, the real number could be 3.5 million or more.If the modeled estimates are some 10 times higher than the confirmed cases, the longer-term human costs and economic damage could prove significantly more burdensome than currently anticipated.Among the ASEAN-6 economies, only Vietnam is expected to avoid a contraction in 2020, in part thanks to US trade and technology war against China. Improved GDP growth has been fueled by recovery in exports, which has benefited from offshored manufacturing capacity from China. Yet, foreign investment flows have fallen.

Inflation, dormant for a decade, captured the market’s attention all summer, with unprecedented Federal Reserve stimulus and a $2 trillion federal spending package set to juice prices.

The exodus from high-yield debt shows few signs of easing, with investors pulling hundreds of millions of dollars more from the largest exchange-traded funds that buy junk bonds as a global index tracking the securities erases its 2020 gains.

Invesco Ltd. is looking to active, nontransparent exchange-traded funds as the next step forward for the $4.6 trillion industry, hoping the new products will be less vulnerable to traders who exploit expected changes in ETF holdings.