Visible Trade

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Sept.

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the government's $700 billion bailout program will end "as soon as we can," and that part of it will be used to lower the soaring federal debt.

SINGAPORE - Singapore said its economy would expand as little as 3 percent in 2010, well below the high growth rates of past years because of a sluggish recovery in the U.S.

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Monday: BRUSSELS - The surging economies of the East should be granted more power in the traditionally Western-dominated global financial institutions, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said at the opening of the Euro-Asian summit.