International funds

Assets invested in the $2.2 billion fund have jumped this year more than any U.S. product of its kind.

A boost in retail enthusiasm at home amid waning international demand has allowed continued tightening of investment grade credit spreads.

New positions were created in hedge funds, ETFs and structured product development in Europe the Middle East and Africa.

There are serious risks in banking on a small fund that's so heavily concentrated in a corner of China's tech sector.

The company's market share has increased in recent years to 67%.

Investors are also loading up on the metal through exchange-traded products, pouring $487 million into SPDR Gold Shares on Wednesday.

Money has flowed out of the vehicles at the fastest rate since June.

Most of the inflow came in the second half of the month after the Fed laid out an unexpectedly dovish rate-hike outlook, Russia's central bank said.

The world's central banks are beginning to plan their course through the uncharted waters of quantitative tightening.

The GDP growth spread between emerging-market and developed-market nations is expected to widen in 2017 to the most in three years.