* China’s manufacturing expanded for a fourth month as a 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus plan and record bank lending revive the world’s third-largest economy.
* The U.S. recession is likely to end later in 2009, ushering in a "frustratingly slow" recovery marked by continued high unemployment, a top Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday.
* Japan's large manufacturers become more optimistic for the first time since December 2006, the Bank of Japan's quarterly tankan survey shows, though the result misses expectations.
* Billionaire investor George Soros Tuesday predicted a "stop-go" economy for the United States, saying fears of inflation will drive up interest rates and choke off growth
* World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday that financial markets are showing signs of stabilization, but warned that the Recession was far from over in developing countries.
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