Geithner to attend G8 meeting next month in Italy

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will travel to Italy next month to attend a meeting of finance officials from the world's top eight industrialized powers, the department announced Thursday.

The meeting will be held in Lecce, Italy, June 12 and 13.

Besides the U.S., the Group of Eight countries are Russia, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada.

Finance officials have been focused on working together to battle the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. They have moved to prop up banks in their individual countries, sought to energize their economies with fiscal stimuli and taken other steps to pull the global economy out of recession.