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In this May 4, 2012 photo, Democratic congressional candidate Sylvia Romo poses for a photo at her home, in San Antonio.

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Facebook's highly anticipated initial public offering today helped the company raise $16 billion, a record for tech IPOs.

Master Sgt. Brandon Hannasch, flight chief, Basic Officer Course, guides actor Jon Huertas as he lays down a burst of suppressive fire from an M249 machine gun during a simulated assault May 4 at Camp Bullis.

Gold futures settled at $1,576/oz , down around 1 percent for the day. This month, gold dipped its toes into bear market territory.

Financial author, hedge-fund manager and commodities guru Jim Rogers says that he's waiting for this current drop in the price to cut deeper before he'll be ready to increase his position by Buying Gold .

The Toronto stock market was sharply lower as talks aimed at forming a new Greek government failed, raising worries the country may have to exit the eurozone.

Jorge Vazquez Sanchez is led out of the federal courthouse, Thursday, May 10, 2012 in San Antonio.

Hard Assets Conference May 14-15, explains why he believes the old expression "sell in May and go away" is not the advice to follow this year.

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NEW ORLEANS and BASKING RIDGE, N.J., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New Orleans is one of 37 U.S. cities where Verizon Wireless has outperformed the competition in combined data, voice and text performance in independent wireless network testing conducted so far this year by national research company RootMetrics .

Photo by Lisa Krantz/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS metro - Calvin Buchholtz, center, who has been teaching at John Jay High School for 40 years, stands amid students changing classes and going to and from lunch at the school in San Antonio on Thursday, May 3, 2012.

Officials say firefighters are making good progress controlling a pair of wildfires that torched about 24,000 acres in rugged far West Texas.

Investors looking to capitalize on developing markets might dig deeper than the heavy-equipment and construction giants that break ground and erect the bridges, stadiums, apartment buildings, and hospitals that a growing middle class will use.

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The investment maxim goes "sell in May and go away". And we recently ran a chart that shows that the period from May through to September has been a challenging period for equities .

Texas and U.S. authorities are trying to seize $20 million worth of properties from the former treasurer of the Mexican border state of Coahuila.

Talking about the monetary system these days requires using unimaginably large numbers, such as $1 trillion, the total U.S. currency in circulation, and $10.9 trillion, the U.S. government debt held by the public.