Facebook priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, a move that values the Internet company at more than $100 billion. It tried floating higher numbers to investors but was rebuffed.

A plan by the Chicago exchange company to allow nearly round-the-clock electronic trading on its Chicago Board of Trade is drawing fire from brokers, farmers and floor traders.

Alexis Tsipras, head of Greece's radical left party, said in an interview with the Journal that there is little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country and if it does, Greece will repudiate its debts.