Awwal 12, 1432, Feb 15, 2011, SPA -- U.S. stocks ended mixed Monday, as investors received reports on President Barack Obama's 2012 budget proposal. In international economic news, China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy. According to government statistics, Japan's economy was valued at $5.47 trillion dollars in 2010, while china was at $5.88 trillion. In U.S. economic news, Obama unveiled his $3.7 trillion budget proposal, which is expected to cut the nation's long-term deficit by about $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. In U.S. company news, shares of General Electric rose 0.8 percent after the company said it would purchase an oil-and-gas engineering company for $2.8 million. --MORE
