The consultancy group foresees retail funds, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), to almost double by 2025 and growing investments in alternative areas, such as real estate and land, private equity and private debt

Autonomous Next also estimates that the "crypto-funds" have about $2.3 billion in total assets under management.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says digital currencies like bitcoin raise worries about how their anonymous nature limits authorities' ability to track illegal use of funds.

Singapore boasts the world's strongest passport, according to Arton Capital's latest ranking

China's unemployment rate has hit its lowest point in multiple years at 3.95 percent by the end of September.

If machine learning can really take over all human tasks and take over ideas of innovation, then it would be possible to get a radical change in the growth rate," Jones told CNBC.

China's central bank has said it should prevent accumulation of risk from excessive optimism

India's banks have struggled with high levels of bad debt, which are crippling their ability to lend and spur investments in Asia's third-largest economy

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said there likely will be an interest rate hike in the UK soon as the central bank seeks to control inflation as the Brexit process continues.

Wages and inflation in the 19-country euro zone will eventually rise but more slowly than earlier thought, requiring continued patience from policymakers, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said Saturday.

vulnerabilities in emerging markets remain below crisis-prone periods in decades past, and that capital flows have been moving in line with fundamentals.

The next global economic slowdown could come from rising risks outside the banking sector, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Unstable loans and escalating levels of global debt could plunge the world into another financial crisis, departing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the Financial Times in an interview published Sunday.

Fiscal, structural and trade policies should first remove obstacles to faster growth

A stunning 906,000 more people were at work in September than August. The total employment level showed 154.3 million Americans were at work, easily a record.

Reforms are more potent and easier to implement when economies are healthier

Rising interest rates and rising home prices are cutting into mortgage demand, as fewer consumers have the incentive to refinance or buy a home.

For an oil-reliant economy that's in the throes of a prolonged slump in crude prices, combating terrorism and fending off questions about its president's health, Nigeria has managed to defy the odds.

IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk. Its offices and factories, stretching from upstate New York to Silicon Valley, were hubs of American innovation long before Microsoft or Google came along.

The global economy is continuing to expand. This has been a good year, and growth will continue into 2018, even if it is not quite as strong in every part of the world.