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Irish band U2 performed three concerts in Mexico City´s Azteca stadium as part of their 360 Tour on May 11, 14, and 15 as lead singer Bono met with President Felipe Calderon to discuss the nation's growing drug-related violence and poverty.

Carlos Santana blasted Georgia's new immigration law as being anti-American on Sunday.

At least 27 people were killed on a ranch plagued by drug cartels in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico, police said on Sunday.

President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would seek to expand U.S. oil production by opening up areas in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

President Barack Obama on Saturday outlined three “good sense” steps he says his administration and Congress should take to deal with a spike in gasoline prices, oil drilling, and tax breaks for oil companies. Obama framed the steps outlined on Saturday as ways of dealing with insufficient job growth and rising gasoline prices.

The stock market performance of major stock indices in 2011 may shock you. One of the best-performing markets is the US. That’s right – the lumbering, deficit ridden, and low-growth giant.

The following are the remarks by President Barack Obama for his weekly address addressing the need to increase U.S. oil production on Saturday, May 14, 2011.

Brazil will apply non-tariff trade barriers on cars in an effort to protect domestic manufacturers, the government said on Thursday, in a new example of escalating protectionism in South America.

Every year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ranks 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. from worst to best. This is based on how challenging it is for persons with asthma to live there. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America thinks of wide range of factors like the asthma rate, pollen counts, air quality and the number of asthma specialists found in the area.

Anne Gudefin, PIMCO’s global equities portfolio manager, likes gold.

China's economic growth could slow to 8 percent, Goldman Sach's Jim O'Neill said on Thursday, as economic data and a drop in commodity prices point to Beijing ending its monetary tightening policy sometime this year.

President Barack Obama's push for comprehensive changes to the nation's immigration laws that would allow more than 11 million people in the country illegally to remain in the country was met with skepticism by Arizona's governor, who said it would be a shame if it was a ploy to get votes in the 2012 presidential election.

HSBC Holdings Plc (NYSE: HBC) said it plans to save up to £2-billion (or $3.5-billion) over the next two years. by downsizing its wealth management and retail segments

Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas

HSBC's new boss is to cut back in retail banking and may sell its U.S. credit card arm in a bid to cut $3.5 billion in costs and revive flagging profits.

HSBC is to streamline its wealth management business, retreat from retail banking in some countries and may sell its U.S. credit cards arm as new CEO Stuart Gulliver attempts to cut $3.5 billion in costs and revive flagging profits.

HSBC is to streamline its wealth management business, retreat from retail banking in some countries and may sell its U.S. credit cards arm as new CEO Stuart Gulliver attempts to cut $3.5 billion in costs and revive flagging profits.

HSBC Holdings Plc is reviewing its U.S. cards business and streamlining its wealth management and retail banking operations as it eyes savings of up to $3.5 billion, Europe's biggest bank said on Wednesday.

Governments, or nowadays central banks, are traditionally the largest holders of gold. And for most of the past two decades, central banks have been net sellers of gold. But since 2010, central banks are net buyers again, because central banks of emerging market economies are aiming to diversify their ever growing currency reserves and reach a similar level in gold reserves as the club of old industrial economies.

President Barack Obama‘s speech on immigration in El Paso, Texas on May 10, 2011.

Gold’s decline last week provides a good opportunity for investors to buy on the dip.