TweetInvestors should buy bearish Mexican stock options at record-low levels because the equities may slide “dramatically” as the Federal Reserve ends its stimulus and Europe struggles with its debt crisis, BNP Paribas SA said. Anand Omprakash, a New York-based equity derivatives strategist, recommended buying September $55 puts to sell the iShares MSCI Mexico Investable Market Index Fund (EWW), [...]

Tweet HastingsDeutchSolis U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, and Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, today urged U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to intervene in a long-running dispute between the Kravis Center and a stagehands union. The union and the West Palm Beach performing arts venue have been at odds since 2000, when center officials broke off contract talks and stopped [...]

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TweetFor Florida voters, Democratic Sen.Bill Nelson holds a place similar to the one that bassist Derek Smallsoccupies in Spinal Tap.  Smalls, played by Harry Shearer in the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, described himself as “kind of like lukewarm water.” Shearer as Smalls A new poll by Democratic outfit Public Policy Pollingsays two-term incumbent Nelson has a 38 [...]

TweetMarc Captuo caught up with Tim Pawlenty this morning in Coral Gables. He reports: Boy, the surly body man named Paul who tries to keep Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on schedule sure didn’t want him to answer any questions – especially one about fellow Minnesota Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann. Here’s a near-complete transcript of [...]

Tweet The Center for Public Integrity By Delal Pektas and Kelsey Sheehy for iWatch News Tim Pawlenty may not have great name recognition but he does have one very important thing for a presidential candidate: a hand in the pocket of Texas billionaire Bob J. Perry. Perry, a homebuilding tycoon with a $600 million fortune, [...]

TweetEcuador’s economy probably grew in the first quarter at its fastest pace in two years as higher oil prices fueled government spending, boosting job creation and consumer demand. Gross domestic product probably accelerated in the January- through-March period from the last quarter of 2010, when GDP rose 6.98 percent year on year and 2.6 percent from the third [...]

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TweetAssessing the field of potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton says he expects Obama to win reelection, even while acknowledging “how well Michele Bachmann has done” and praising some other GOP hopefuls. Clinton said he’s “not surprised” by Bachmann’s quick rise to the top-tier of the field of GOP hopefuls. [...]

TweetWASHINGTON — It happens almost every time Sen. Marco Rubio sits down for a national TV interview. Will you be on the Republican presidential ticket in 2012? I’m flattered, Rubio says, but I will not be anyone’s running mate. “I’m focused on this job here in the U.S. Senate.”  Smart politics — he arrived only six [...]