Currencies

Asian shares tracked an overnight rally on Wall Street, though Japan's Nikkei 225 index ceded early gains as the yen rose against the U.S. dollar.

U.S. stocks are posting solid gains early Monday as energy companies recover some of their recent losses.

From calling them a “fraud” to publishing a 71-page pamphlet: here’s how the bank’s view has evolved.

Cryptocurrencies are highly risky and unregulated products that are unsuitable as investment, savings or retirement planning products, the regulators said in a joint statement.

Iceland is expected to use more energy mining bitcoins and other virtual currencies this year than it uses to power its homes.

With massive amounts of electricity needed to run the computers that create bitcoins, large virtual currency companies have established a base in the North Atlantic island nation blessed with an abundance of renewable energy.

U.S. stocks moved sharply higher in early trading Friday, recouping some of the ground lost a day earlier when indexes plummeted, deepening a weeklong sell-off that knocked the market into a "correction" for the first time in two years.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim this week joined other business leaders in expressing skepticism about cryptocurrencies, likening digital currencies to “Ponzi schemes.”

As Brexit gets nearer, British firms are exporting more to the other 27 countries in the European Union, a development that's likely to focus minds as discussions over the country's future relationship with the bloc start up again.

IBM is making “major investments” in the blockchain technology.

Agents confiscated the digital currency as well as several gold and silver bars from a man’s home in Toledo, Ohio.

Asian stocks plunged Friday after Dow Jones industrials on Wall Street plummeted more than 1,000 points, deepening a week-long sell-off.

U.S. stocks are lower Thursday morning as losses from the previous day continue.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

Mexico's central bank has decided to raise its key interbank interest rate from 7.25 percent to 7.5 percent, citing expectations of a U.S. rate increase in March and continued volatility in exchange rates for the Mexican peso.

Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday, though investors appeared skittish after this week's financial turmoil and overnight losses on Wall Street.

One dollar bought 6.3260 yuan as of the 4:30 p.m. close for domestic trading on Thursday, marking a 1% decline in the Chinese currency against the dollar from Wednesday.

U.S. stocks are opening higher Wednesday as trading stabilizes following three days of tumult.

The Wikileaks’ founder may be rolling in Bitcoin cash.

The recent price fluctuation is evidence that the market is in a bubble, the investment bank said in a research report.