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Star mutual fund managers are beating the soaring stock market in 2020 -- but customers are abandoning them for index-trackers anyway.

Bitcoin vaulted above $29,000 to reach yet another record level on the last day of 2020, in a fitting end to a groundbreaking year for the world’s largest digital currency.

The largest product from Cathie Wood’s prominent exchange-traded fund lineup did something unusual on Tuesday -- it posted outflows.

Fifteen countries that make up nearly a third of the world's population and gross domestic product have formed the world's largest trading bloc.The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, was

The central banks have increased their assets by 38.5% in the last twelve months, which has had a profound effect on both the bond and equity markets globally.They have pushed down interest rates for their nations, in an attempt to control the debt of their respective governments, as all of the governments borrowed more and more money to support their economies during the pandemic.The ECB and the BOJ have pushed their yields below the once-unthinkable line of zero. The Fed may also be motivated into negative interest rates if the Democrats win the upcoming US elections.

Japan's leading economic index, exports, and industrial production have improved sequentially, but inflation continues to be anemic.The new PM of Japan looks set to maintain his predecessor's policies but structural reforms could be a new angle to watch out for.Investors may consider a position in EWJ or alternatively, in keeping with risk-off sentiment as flagged by The Lead-Lag Report, also consider shorting the AUD/JPY, CAD/JPY.

Japan's Cabinet Office reports that the early preliminary reading for the Leading Economic Index for September was 86.9 to match consensus expectations. The broad measure of economic activity rose from