2011-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

As President Barack Obama prepares to announce a plan to slash U.S. government deficits by trillions of dollars, a powerful Republican lawmaker is already criticizing key components reportedly contain

2011-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

Presenting his second major set of economic proposals in 10 days, President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan for more than $3 trillion in spending reductions over the next decade, saying all Americans

2011-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

Standard & Poors has cut Italy's credit rating, citing weak economic growth and political uncertainty.The credit rating agency cut Italy's rating one notch Monday - from A+ to A.S&P said the country

2011-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

As President Barack Obama prepares to announce a plan to slash U.S. government deficits by trillions of dollars, a powerful Republican lawmaker is already criticizing key components reportedly contain

2011-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister for Cyprus affairs Besir Atalay says if the European Union gives southern Cyprus the rotating EU presidency in 2012, Turkey will freeze relations with the bloc.Turkey's

2011-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

ATHENS, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Greek government will finalize a fresh package of deficit cutting measures after talks with EU/IMF lenders scheduled for Monday, Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Financ

2011-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

Anti-austerity protesters put an early end to a two-day European Union finance ministers meeting in Poland that failed to achieve a breakthrough on key measures to tackle Europe's growing financial c

2011-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

General Motors Company and the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract late Friday in Detroit, Michigan.Details of the settlement are being withheld, pendin

2011-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

The lawyer for two Americans jailed in Iran says he needs the signature of one more judge on bail papers before his clients can be released. Masoud Shafiei said Saturday he hopes Iran's judiciary wil

2011-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Barack Obama has signed legislation to speed the process of approving U.S. patents. The president says the new law is part of his initiative to create jobs and stimulate economic growth. Pr

2011-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

India's Reserve Bank has raised interest rates in a continuing struggle to control inflation. The rate hike, which was announced Friday, is the 12th increase in the last year-and-a-half. But there

2011-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

Wall Street analysts searching for reasons for the U.S. stock market's sharp swings in early August point to high unemployment, the European debt crisis and other basic economic problems. But some al

2011-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

One week after U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress to act swiftly to spur job creation and economic growth, bipartisan backing for his proposals has yet to materialize. The president’s package

2011-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

The head of the International Monetary Fund says the global economy has entered a "dangerous phase" in which advanced economies risk slipping into a new recession that also would hurt developing natio

2011-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

Police in London say they have arrested a man accused in an unauthorized trading scheme that allegedly cost Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion. Police say Kweku Adoboli, 31, was taken into custody Thursd

2011-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Thursday that the fate of Palestinian aspirations for statehood or non-member observer statehood is in the hands of memb

2011-09-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday made his latest pitch to urge Congress to pass a 447-billion-dollar jobs bill, saying American small businesses and workers will

2011-09-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

French, German and Greek leaders are scheduled to hold a conference call Wednesday on how to contain Europe's deepening financial crisis that also is triggering alarm in other continents. The call by

2011-09-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

A new report by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says the British petroleum company BP was "ultimately responsible" for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The

2011-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

Census data released Tuesday show that 46 million people live in poverty in the United States. The 2010 census also shows that a slightly higher figure, almost 50 million people, in the U.S. do not ha

2011-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the 17-nation bloc that uses the euro currency must do everything it can to avoid an "uncontrolled insolvency" by Greece.The German leader said Tuesday that the ef

2011-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

Russia has criticized a European Union decision to open discussions with former Soviet states Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on a pipeline project that could deliver the Caspian region's vast natural ga

2011-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Obama is urging the U.S. Congress to act quickly on a $447-billion bill he is sending to Capitol Hill aimed at giving the U.S. economy a jolt by creating jobs. Obama used a Rose Garden event

2011-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

Stock prices plunged on many global markets Monday as investors worried that Greece might not be able to repay the loans used to rescue its troubled economy.While Greece is not a particularly large ec

2011-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

The National September 11 Memorial opens to the public Monday in New York City, more than a decade after the twin towers of the World Trade Center were taken down by terrorists.Visitors will see for t