ECB rejects even minor tweak to message

European Central Bank policymakers meeting last month rejected even a token change in the bank's policy message.

Crypto bet blows up financial guru's retirement account

• Lily Katz

Making big bets on speculative assets with retirement money is something most advisers warn against, but bitcoin fever is prompting all sorts of puzzling decisions.

UK rates could rise at fast pace

​The Bank of England could end up needing to raise interest rates faster than investors expect, its chief economist told lawmakers.

Desperate Venezuela goes crypto

• Kirk Semple and Nathaniel Popper

The Maduro administration hopes that sales of the digital currency, known as the petro, will help its treasury raise the foreign currency it desperately needs to pay off debt and increase imports.