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Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF (VPL) - $0.8822.Payable Dec 24; for shareholders of record Dec 22; ex-div Dec 21.

Vanguard Group created the price-cutting fervor that became an Olympic sport in money management. Now it’s feeling the toll of that competition.

The Bank of Japan has taken over as the biggest owner of the nation’s stocks, with the total value of its holdings climbing well above $400 billion.

Reflecting worse-than-expected outturns in the second quarter in a few countries, the IMF's forecast for the region has been downgraded to -2.2 percent in 2020 - the worst outcome for this region in living memory.India's economy experienced a much sharper than expected contraction in the second quarter - 24 percent on a year-over-year basis - and is expected to recover slowly in the coming quarters.China, which suffered the pandemic's blow earlier than other countries, has seen a strong recovery after the first quarter lockdown, and growth has been revised up to 1.9 percent this year, a rare positive figure in a sea of negatives.The good news is that we expect the region to grow by 6.9 percent in 2021.

The private bank to Queen Elizabeth II is lavishing millions of dollars in a high-stakes bet on a Brexit deal in the teeth of market scepticism.

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.