Brazil's major parties lost ground to a dozen smaller groups in Congress in Sunday's election, making it harder for the next president to form a stable coalition needed to undertake economic reforms and control government spending.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto vowed on Monday to hunt down those responsible for the apparent massacre of dozens of students in the southwest of the country that authorities say involved local security officials.
The U.S. top financial risk council may tweak the way in which it identifies insurers and other companies that are not banks as systemically important, a process the industry and politicians have fiercely criticized.
NYSE Group said on Monday it would take back the majority of the policing duties for its two U.S. options exchanges and three stock markets, including the New York Stock Exchange, from Wall Street's self-funded watchdog at the end of 2015.
