SPB News for Thursday

Obama improving US image abroad?

Bloomberg reports world 'largely has embraced' new American president.

Orszag: Economy 'No Longer On The Brink'

Goldman Buys Back TARP Warrants For $1.1B

Yo Quiero No More: Taco Bell Spokes-Chihuahua Dies at 15

Survey: Investors Looking For Opportunities In Asia

Ron Paul: End wars to fund health care

Wells Fargo profit jumps 81 percent

FDNY exams 'excluded blacks, Latinos'

UnitedHealth Group Q2 Profit Jumps 155% Health care company UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Tuesday that its second quarter profit more than doubled from last year, but its health insurance enrollment continued to decline amid the economic recession. The Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company reported second quarter net income of $859 million, or 73 cents per share, compared with only $337 million, or 27 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Last year’s results included a pretax charge of $922 million, or 47 cents per share, however.

Bernanke: "I Don't Know" Which Foreign Banks Were Given Half a Trillion --Grayson grills Fed chairman on destination of credit swaps By Paul Joseph Watson Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was confronted yesterday by Congressman Alan Grayson about which foreign banks were the recipients of Federal Reserve credit swaps, but he was unable to provide an answer as to where over half a trillion dollars had gone. Asked which European financial institutions received the money, which was handed out by The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), a component of the Federal Reserve System, Bernanke responded, "I don’t know." "Half a trillion dollars and you don’t know who got the money?" asked Grayson. ..[T]he destination of trillions in bailout funds remains hidden after the Fed refused to disclose where it had gone despite a lawsuit filed by Bloomberg.

Report: Bin Laden son killed
US officials believe Saad bin Laden may have been killed by drone.