US President Barack Obama will unveil details of a fee on the country's top financial firms on Thursday designed to recoup losses from an emergency bank bailout fund that used taxpayer money, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
Preparations are under way ahead of the world's tallest building Burj Dubai's official opening on January 4, 2010.
US President Barack Obama says the US economy has "core strengths" that will put the nation in a good stead for the long term despite a difficult year for millions of people.
China has revised its gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate for 2008 to 9.6 percent from 9 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
Japan's government on Tuesday unveiled a new stimulus package worth nearly $81 billion to keep the fragile recovery in the world's second-biggest economy from veering off track.
European Commission's autumn forecast for 2009-2001 showed here on Tuesday that EU economy is set to fall by 4 percent in 2009, expected to grow by 0.75 percent in 2010 and 1.5 percent in 2011.