Economy of Mexico banks”, bonded warehouses, bonding companies and foreign-exchange firms. A wave of acquisitions has left Mexico's financial sector in foreign hands. Their foreign-run affiliates compete with independent financial firms operating as commercial banks, brokerage and securities houses, insurance companies, retirement-fund administrators, mutual funds, and leasing companies. Mexico has a single securities market, the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, known as the Bolsa). The market has grown steadily, with its main indices increasing by more than 600% in the last decade. It is Latin America's second largest exchange, after Brazil's. The total value of the domestic market capitalization of the
Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano Alameda in 1842. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano was filed by José de Jesús Vallejo with the Public Land Commission in 1852 and confirmed by the US District Court in 1856. Vallejo unsuccessfully appealed the official survey to the US Supreme Court, and the grant was patented in 1865. A claim for half of the grant to José Dolores Pico was filed