Agustin Carstens, Governor of the Mexican central bank, asked the US Federal Reserve to clarify its plans for the reduction of its monthly bond purchases.

The presence of wild pigs had become a huge problem in the United States. Agriculture authorities in the US said wild pigs had become a tremendous problem in the country.

Banks were prompted to look at their tradition of "client hires" as the SEC deepened its investigation of JPMorgan's hiring of two Chinese nationals.

Public labor unions asked a US court to throw out Detroit's bankruptcy filing on various grounds.

A recovery in the US housing market lifted the sales and earnings of Home Depot. Home Depot Inc gained from the rebound experienced in the US housing market.

Bethany McLean of Reuters wrote that it would be a challenge to remove government sponsored enterprises from the US mortgage market.

Eurozone indicators and US trends point to a recovery in the global economy. Positive results from business surveys conducted in the Euro Zone as well as encouraging trends in the US all point to better prospects for the global economy.

A federal judge allowed the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against a unit of Bank of America to proceed by endorsing a broad interpretation of the FIRREA.

President Obama met with regulators of the US financial markets to discuss their progress on the implementation of the 2010 Wall Street Reform Law.

Argentina lost an appeal in a 2nd district circuit court in New York and deemed to wait until the US Supreme Court had finished reviewing their case.