Bloomberg Cryptocurrencies continued their epic slide with a fresh bout of losses after the SEC dashed hopes that a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund would appear before the end of this year. Bitcoin, the largest digital token, slumped as much as 10 percent, taking it down past $3,250 to the lowest level since September 2017, according to consolidated pricing compiled by Bloomberg. ...

Bloomberg Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said US economic momentum is strong and a gradual approach to interest-rate increases remains appropriate for now. “The gradual path of increases in the federal funds rate has served us well by giving us time to assess the effects of policy as we have proceeded,’’ Brainard said at a conference at the Peterson Institute ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling party wouldn’t back the government taking a stake in Deutsche Bank AG to strengthen the nation’s financial industry, senior members said. “The argument for a ‘big bank’ can be discussed as a matter of economic policy, but it doesn’t justify the use of taxpayers’ money,” Michael Meister, a member of the Christian Democratic Union’s ...