Business and Finance
MEXICO'S economic crisis deepened as the country's stock market and currency both fell more than 6%, showing that investors aren't convinced the country can return to stability soon. The crisis sent emerging-market debt securities plunging for the second straight day as traders reacted to a poor response to a Mexican debt offering, and stocks in other Latin American markets tumbled.</br></br>---</br></br>The Canadian dollar continued its long slide, falling to an eight-and-a-half-year low against the U.S. dollar.</br></br>The Spanish peseta plunged, as did the Italian lira and Swedish krona, as European currency markets gyrated.</br></br>---