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While the relentless spread of the coronavirus drove the equity market lower on Monday, there were also signs investors are preparing for a greater possibility that Democrats will gain control of the U.S. Senate.

Three big players have long made up the majority of the $5.4 trillion U.S. exchange-traded fund industry, but their latest offerings were also-rans in a record year for new product launches.

Chinese stocks listed in the U.S., including China Telecom Corp. and Pinduoduo Inc., fell on the prospect of further sanctions that would remove more of the Asian nation’s biggest companies from American stock exchanges.

Since the end of 2015, the top performer on our list is Invesco WilderHill Clean Energy, which has surged in recent years.The caveat is that the new world order of "clean energy" and other innovations, in all its various flavors, is a rapidly evolving realm.At the same time, it appears that the old business of fossil fuels that has defined the energy sector in decades past is now a sunset industry.