Topic: Mexico

In Los Angeles, a Wal-Mart building permit is getting a once-over. In New York, the City Council is investigating a possible land deal with the retailer’s developer in Brooklyn. A state senator in California is pushing for a formal audit of a proposed Wal-Mart in San Diego. And in Boston and its suburbs, residents are pressuring politicians to disclose whether they have received contributions from the company, the  New York Times reports.

Wal-Mart Stores may not find the math easy when it tries to assess the potential criminal liabilities from an alleged bribery scandal and possible cover-up at its Mexican unit.

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While few expected Wal-Mart to sustain long-term damage, most pros felt the bribery case will hurt the company's expansion plans and possibly even lead to arrests and a major corporate shake-up.

Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than rooting out wrongdoing,  reports The New York Times.

Mexico's benchmark IPC index plunged nearly 2 percent within minutes in late trading Friday after a "wrong order by a broker," the exchange told CNBC.

A strong earthquake hit western Mexico on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and sending people rushing out of offices onto the streets, though there were no reports of major damage.

As more legal and illegal immigrants stay home, there is concern about how it will affect the US labor pool, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

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A major 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck 120 miles (193 km) east of Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.

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Leading economies told Europe it must put up extra money to fight its debt crisis if it wants more help from the rest of the world, piling pressure on Germany to drop its opposition to a bigger European bailout.

Germany is easing its opposition to a bigger European bailout fund, officials said, smoothing the way for the world's leading economies to secure nearly $2 trillion in firepower to prevent further fallout from the euro zone debt crisis.