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• Outbreak of deadly piglet virus spreads to 13 U.S. states Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 8:35 PM ET

  CHICAGO, June 18- A swine virus deadly to young pigs, one never before seen in North America, is spreading rapidly across the United States and proving harder to control than previously believed.

• UPDATE 3-Brazil mine bill would double top royalty rate Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 5:44 PM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18- Brazil, a major producer of iron ore, gold, copper and other metals, unveiled a long-awaited bill to reform its 46- year-old mining code on Tuesday, proposing a doubling of the current top royalty rate and stricter rules for opening new mines.

• Now the yen is joining in the battering of emerging markets Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 9:12 AM ET

  LONDON, June 18- Wild exchange rate swings in the yen are giving investors an added incentive to sell holdings of the emerging debt that not so long ago was billed as one of the prime beneficiaries of Japan's money-printing drive.

• UPDATE 2-New Saipem profit warning rattles investors Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | 12:26 PM ET

  *Saipem at centre of Algeria corruption probe. MILAN, June 17- A second profit warning in less than 5 months wiped over a quarter from the share price of Italy's Saipem on Monday, leaving Europe's biggest oil industry group worth half what it was at the start of the year.

• Mexico reports severe flooding in border city Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | 7:22 AM ET

  PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico-- Heavy weekend rains have caused severe flooding in the Mexican city of Piedras Negras on the border with Texas. Canales says the storm that began Friday afternoon and continued into Saturday dropped 60 percent of the rain usually seen in a full year in Piedras Negras.

• RPT-UPDATE 1-Saipem shares plunge after new profit warning Monday, 17 Jun 2013 | 5:12 AM ET

  *Saipem at centre of Algeria corruption probe. MILAN, June 17- Saipem's share price fell by as much as 25 percent on Monday, after Europe's biggest oil industry services group gave its second major profit warning in less than six months due to problems with contracts in Algeria, Mexico and Canada.

• ANALYSIS-Fed-induced selloff has investors hunting for bargains Sunday, 16 Jun 2013 | 8:59 AM ET

  NEW YORK, June 16- Since Ben Bernanke unleashed a bombshell on May 22 by suggesting the U.S. Traders with big investors like Pacific Investment Management Company and Loomis Sayles& Company are taking advantage of buying opportunities they say they haven't seen in some time, with in-and-out hot money having flushed out of the system.

• UPDATE 1-Santander Mexico to buy ING mortgage business Friday, 14 Jun 2013 | 5:04 PM ET

  June 14- The Mexican unit of Spanish bank Santander said on Friday it will buy Dutch bank ING's mortgage business in Mexico to become the country's second-biggest provider of home loans. Santander Mexico, Mexico's No. 3 bank, will pay 643 million Mexican pesos in cash for the 12.3 billion peso mortgage book, according to a statement.

• UPDATE 2-Mexico's Walmex considers selling restaurant business Friday, 14 Jun 2013 | 11:59 AM ET

  *Sale could raise $600 mln to $700 mln, analyst says. MEXICO CITY, June 14- Wal-Mart de Mexico, Mexico's largest retailer, surprised analysts on Friday by saying it may sell its restaurant unit, including the popular Vips chain, after receiving interest from potential buyers.

• UPDATE 1-Mexican retailer Walmex considers selling restaurant business Friday, 14 Jun 2013 | 9:39 AM ET

  MEXICO CITY, June 14- Mexico's largest retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico said on Friday it has started looking into selling its Vips restaurant business as it seeks to shed non-core assets in the face of flagging sales. It is controlled by Wal-Mart Stores Inc..

• UPDATE 1-Nicaraguan assembly OKs $40 bln Chinese canal to rival Panama's Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | 7:28 PM ET

  *Canal could boost GDP by 15 percent- Nicaragua. The $40 billion proposal by HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co Ltd's calls for linking Nicaragua's Caribbean and Pacific coasts and includes plans for two free-trade zones, a railway, an oil pipeline and airports.

• EXCLUSIVE-Strategic Hotels hires Eastdil for possible sale-sources Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | 4:44 PM ET

  NEW YORK, June 13- Luxury hotel owner Strategic Hotels and Resorts Inc has hired investment bank Eastdil Secured to explore a possible sale of the real estate investment trust, two sources familiar with the matter said this week. Its shares rose 10.6 percent to $8.53 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the news.

• UPDATE 1-U.S. Senate rejects Republican effort to gut immigration bill Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | 11:14 AM ET

  WASHINGTON, June 13- The Democratic-led U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican amendment that foes said would have undermined a key element of the White House- backed bill that aims to provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.

• Small business exports picking up, survey finds Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 | 12:02 AM ET

  NEW YORK-- Small business exports are rising as the economy gradually gains strength and companies find trading partners in a new mix of countries, according to a survey released Wednesday.

• Mexico Congress to hold special sessions, buttressing reforms Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 10:51 PM ET

  MEXICO CITY, June 12- Congressional leaders of Mexico's main parties said on Wednesday they had agreed to hold two special sessions of Congress in July and August to tackle outstanding initiatives, paving the way for key energy and fiscal reforms to move forward in the autumn.

• Silicon Valley intensifies lobbying on U.S. immigration bill Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 9:20 PM ET

  Human resources executives from Adobe, Broadcom, Intel, Motorola Solutions and other corporations met with dozens of lawmakers and senior advisers on Wednesday from the congressional committees in charge of immigration laws.

• U.S. hopes NSA surveillance won't derail data trade goals Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 12:46 PM ET

  "There's no question that for a long time one of the most difficult issues that we're grappling with... is the whole domain of issues encompassed in privacy," said Michael Punke, U.S. ambassador to the World Trade Organization. The negotiations include the United States, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and more than a dozen other countries.

• ANALYSIS-After emerging corporate bond boom, default risks on rise Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 12:39 PM ET

  LONDON, June 12- The $1 trillion market in emerging corporate bonds could be headed for a surge in defaults if company earnings in swiftly depreciating roubles or pesos fail to keep pace with dollar-based debt repayments. Corporate vulnerability was one of the motivations behind Russia's costly $200 billion defence of the rouble in 2008..

• Businessman sued over alleged misuse of pension Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 10:45 AM ET

  DES MOINES, Iowa-- The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday it sued a Kentucky businessman claiming he and others took $4.9 million from the pension plans of a Fairfield foundry's union workers and a related Michigan company to use for their own business interests violating a federal law that protects worker pension assets.

• UPDATE 2-Immigration bill clears early test vote; Obama calls for action Tuesday, 11 Jun 2013 | 4:00 PM ET

  *Bill easily overcomes Senate procedural hurdle. With November's election results indicating broad support for updating the country's immigration laws, even some senators who have expressed opposition to the Senate bill voted to allow the debate to go ahead.