S&P, Nasdaq rise on bullish data (Reuters)
Reuters - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained on Thursday, building on their best day in eight weeks in the previous session as data showed an improvement in pending home sales and a drop in initial jobless claims.

Burger King agrees to be sold for $3.26 billion (Reuters)
Reuters - Burger King Holdings Inc , the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain, agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for about $3.26 billion in a deal analysts said would give the restaurant breathing room to fix its business.

Bernanke takes blame for muddling message on Lehman (Reuters)
Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he was partly to blame for leaving the wrong impression that the central bank could have saved Lehman Brothers from failure in 2008.

HP wins 3PAR for $2.4 billion, Dell bows out (Reuters)
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $2.4 billion, after rival Dell Inc bowed out from a drawn-out bidding war on Thursday.

Pending homes sales rise and jobless claims dip (Reuters)
Reuters - Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rebounded unexpectedly in July and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, hopeful signs for the sputtering economic recovery.

Equities make bright start to September (AFP)
AFP - Asian and European stocks rose on Wednesday, lifted by bargain-hunting and upbeat data, as dealers set aside Wall Street's worst August performance in nine years amid stubborn US recovery doubts.

Instant View: Pending home sales rise in July (Reuters)
Reuters - Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose unexpectedly in July, an industry group said on Thursday, suggesting a tax credit-related housing market decline was close to bottoming.

Del Monte 1Q profit edges up, but revenue slips (AP)
AP - Del Monte Foods Co. said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit edged up 1.4 percent, but revenue softened on weakness in the consumer business and the company trimmed its expectations for revenue growth this year.

German car exports up 12 percent in August (AP)
AP - German car exports kept growing in August as a healthier global economy fueled sales abroad, helping push up production, an industry group said Thursday.

5 Reasons You Should Buy Your Latte (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report - The Latte Factor, a term coined (and trademarked) by personal finance guru David Bach, is one of the most talked about concepts in the world of personal finance. But it might be based on faulty math.

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