German printing press maker Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG said Tuesday its net loss for its fiscal first quarter widened 77 percent as the economic crisis curbed demand from publishers.

Japan’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 0.1 percent Tuesday, and maintained a cautious view on the strength of recovery in the world’s second-largest economy.

Suddenly, it seems, economists everywhere are starting to talk about the end of the recession.

The economy may show signs of life, but so-called toxic assets are still a major threat to any recovery, a bailout watchdog group warned on Tuesday.

South Korea’s central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at a record low Tuesday for a sixth straight month and said it’s too early to consider raising borrowing costs as the country emerges from its worst slowdown in over a decade.

Oil rose above $71 on Tuesday, ending a three-day losing streak as record Chinese oil imports and refinery production helped offset mixed economic data, while traders anticipated key reports on the state of global demand.

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The Treasury Department should consider expanding programs to cleanse troubled assets from bank balance sheets if current efforts fail to restart markets or if economic conditions worsen, a U.S. bailout watchdog panel said on Tuesday.

China’s industrial output, trade and retail sales improved in July, data showed Tuesday, in positive signs for Beijing’s multibillion-dollar effort to restore stable growth in the world’s third-largest economy.

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