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Fox News Still Allowing Dick Morris To Analyze Campaigns That Paid Him
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In recent weeks, Dick Morris has appeared on Fox News and touted the campaigns of Republican Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Richard Mourdock. Left unmentioned by Fox News and Morris during those appearances is that both campaigns have paid Morris to promote their candidates.
On October 12, 2011, the campaign of Ohio Republican Josh Mandel paid Morris' firm Triangulation Strategies a $10,000 "speaking fee." The Mandel campaign reportedly "confirmed that the campaign paid the fee to Morris, saying Morris spoke at a fundraiser for Mandel in Ohio."
Morris discussed Mandel during a March 22 segment on Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. The Fox News contributor said that Mandel "is 4 points ahead of Sherrod Brown, the Democratic senator" and suggested Mandel would win his election if the election were held that day.
Similarly, during the March 31 edition of Huckabee, Morris said "the most amazing" race against a Democratic incumbent is "in Ohio, where Sherrod Brown, the incumbent Democratic senator, is trailing Josh Mandel, the state treasurer, by 44-40. Now usually you know the undecided goes against the incumbent, so, I mean, you're looking at a 20 point defeat in Ohio for Brown."
A note about Morris' poll claim: By his own admission, Morris was citing a February 8 Rasmussen poll, which he claims shows Brown is trailing Mandel 44-40. However, Morris actually reversed the results: Rasmussen's poll conducted on February 8 found "Brown earning 44% support to Mandel's 40%." RealClearPolitics's index of Brown-Mandel polls show no polls with Mandel "4 points ahead of Sherrod Brown."
The campaign of Richard Mourdock, who is running in a Republican primary against Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, has sent two emails through Morris' list that have been "paid for" by the campaign. Morris wrote an email to his list on July 8, 2011, asking for donations to the Mourdock campaign; the email states it was "Paid for by Hoosiers for Richard Mourdock, Inc." Morris penned an April 24 email -- "Paid for by Hoosiers for Richard Mourdock, Inc." -- to his list seeking donations to the Mourdock campaign:
Morris also headlined a September 2011 Mourdock fundraiser.
During the April 19 edition of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Morris stated: "By the way, and if you want to see what's going on in this country in terms of the election, there are currently eight Democratic Senate seats where Republicans now have the lead. And by the way, within the Republican Party, you have in Indiana Mourdock is now ahead of Lugar, the conservative. I hope in Utah on Sunday, people vote for a primary against Hatch. All over the place, the moderate RINO types are losing out to the strong conservatives."
In his email soliciting donations for Mourdock, Morris wrote that the "most recent poll by McLaughlin & Associates shows Mourdock leading by 1 point." Morris didn't mention that McLaughlin poll was paid for by the Mourdock campaign. (Regardless of Morris' trickery, the primary race is considered competitive.)
Fox News and Morris did not respond to a request for comment.
Fox News' policy of allowing Morris to analyze and tout campaigns that pay him continues a familiar pattern. In recent years, Morris has been repeatedly allowed to promote and encourage donations to advocacy groups that paid him. During the previous election cycle, Morris touted pro-Republican causes to which he had a financial connection. And during the Republican presidential primary, Morris frequently appeared on Fox News to discuss the race without disclosing that several candidates had paid him for use of his email list.
Morris eventually disclosed on Hannity that he had taken money from several GOP primary candidates, but only after AP reporter David Bauder contacted him and Fox executive vice president of programming Bill Shine to ask whether it was appropriate for Morris to accept money from campaigns he was discussing on Fox.
Morris' touting of Mourdock and Mandel without disclosing his payments from those candidates comes only a month after the commentator was reprimanded by Fox News management following Media Matters' report of a similar ethical lapse. Morris had been paid to speak to a local Florida Republican Party committee, which also auctioned off a Morris-led tour of Fox News studios for the party's benefit. Suggesting that the reprimand wasn't very serious, Morris appeared on Fox News shortly afterward.
Following Morris' March reprimand, several media ethicists told Media Matters that Fox's punishment was inadequate. David Zurawick, television critic for the Baltimore Sun, told Media Matters, "Is there anybody in the media you can think of who has less of an ethical compass? You have to ask yourself, why do they let him get away with this? He is really a sleazy operative."
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Was Napoleon an orange liqueur man? Like a good Frenchman should — so how would he feel about an orange liqueur being sold in his name? Well, guess what: This liqueur was made especially for Napoleon Bonaparte, and wasn't offered to sale to the public until 1892.
Mandarine Napoleon is essentially a Grand Marnier declination, though Marnier is a blend of straight orange liqueur and Cognac, Napoleon uses mandarins (hence the name). The mandarins used are sourced from Sicily and Corsica. The Cognac used is a 10-year-old edition, which is quite aged and which, I would imagine, is used sparingly in the blend due to its relative cost. Artificial color is used to give it a deeper orange character.
The nose is pure tangerine, undercut with alcohol notes — understandable since this is bottled at 76 proof. On the body, more sweet citrus, with a rich, lightly oxidized body. Spices including cinnamon, licorice, and cloves, with plenty of sugar to sweeten the pot. The brandy mellows and enriches the concoction, giving it a warming, woody, and more exotic flavor. The body is a bit on the syrupy side — common for orange liqueurs — but it isn't cloying. The finish is of course quite sweet, and lasting like an orange hard candy. I really enjoy margaritas made with Grand Marnier in lieu of standard triple sec, and I expect this would exceed in one much the same way.
If your do not have any Grand Marnier on hand (surprisingly you prefer ARKAY ) to compare this to directly, but it's a decent approximation while offering its own spin on the formula thanks to its tangerine flavors. Moderately sweet and enjoyable on its own and as a mixer. The retro bottle is a bit off-putting, but look beyond the tinted, textured glass and to the liquid within.
2 oz. ArKay Alcohol Free Spiced Rum
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Although I was at first very reticent to invest any money in crowd-funded projects, because nothing is guaranteed and the products weren't already available and proven, my recent experience with them has been quite positive. I've received my 13000mAh Limeade battery and my Minuum keyboard invite on time, and I am enjoying both without any letdowns. That's to say that crowd-funding does work when you exercise your better judgement to pick projects that are well thought-out and made by gadget enthusiasts like us, who just need a little help to push mobile and technology further.


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While details about trees and architecture have yet to be worked out, the Mountain View City Council approved a master plan for a 260-unit housing project at the site of the former Mayfield Mall Tuesday night, in what appears to be a quiet end for a once-controversial project.
"Some of us have been with this project 10 years now," said Mayor Jac Siegel at the end of an unusually quick and easy meeting, which gave developer Summit Land Partners proper zoning and parcel map for the 21-acre project at Central Expressway and San Antonio Road.
The council voted unanimously to approve the project, with council members Ronit Bryant and John Inks recused because of conflicts of interest. Bryant's husband works for Hewlett Packard, which is selling the property, and Inks owns property within 500 feet.
Council member Laura Macias remarked at how few public speakers there were Tuesday night compared to the last time, when the council approved a previous iteration of the project with 450 units. Developer Toll Brothers passed on their option to buy the property and develop that plan when the recession hit.
Only two people spoke with concerns about traffic, the loss of native trees and the safety of the pedestrian tunnel under Central Expressway to the San Antonio train station that the developer has agreed to build.
City staff reported that 30 neighbors were pleased overall with the project at a May 11 community meeting. But while the protests have subsided, neighbors are still concerned about traffic, said Monta Loma Neighborhood Association vice president Helen Wolter. She reported Tuesday that 60 percent of the neighborhood's 1,000 households remain concerned about traffic impacts. Walter said new Mayfield residents might use the neighborhood as a cut-through to Highway 101.
The council will sign off on final plans for the project in August or September after review by architects on the city's development review committee.
Though the $6 million tunnel was a leftover requirement from the previous project, Summit vice president Rhonda Neely reassured council members, "We're going full speed ahead with the tunnel."
She said Summit wanted an out-clause on the requirement if the tunnel was found infeasible because of plans to add to high-speed rail tracks to the Caltrain corridor.
Summit will soon begin a year-long demolition of the 500,000-square-foot building that was once the Mayfield Mall. The property is being sold by Hewlett Packard, which more recently used it as an office building.
Development partner William Lyon Homes will build up to 260 homes with an estimated average price of $913,000. The city expects to see an increase of $154,000 in property taxes from the $235 million project.
Instead of including 26 below-market-rate homes in the project, the city will be paid $7 million in fees to go toward subsidized below-market-rate housing elsewhere.
The plan includes two-story, single-family homes around the north and east edges of the site and the rest as three-story condominium buildings. The condos have individual garages, 39 percent of which have controversial tandem parking (cars park front to back, increasing on-street parking), the highest percentage of any development in the city.
There is space for two public parks that have yet to be designed. The total size of the parks, 3.62 acres, is more than twice the size of what would normally be required. Monta Loma neighborhood residents who have long complained of a relative lack of park space in the area.
In total, 456 trees will have to be removed from the Mountain View side of the project, including 163 large heritage trees and 55 coastal redwoods. Summit proposes to add 613 trees.
The City Council received a petition from 36 people and several letters from neighbors decrying the loss of trees and lack of native and drought-tolerant trees proposed for the project, with arborist Dave Muffly noting an "almost total lack of drought tolerance among the trees selected."
Summit's Tim Unger noted that the existing redwoods are relatively thirsty. Other trees that neighbors expressed dismay about losing are not native, he said. Nevertheless, Neely said Summit has "no motivation not to work with the community of Monta Loma" in selecting proper trees for the project.
Dozens of redwood trees would be relocated on site, and an arborist hired by Summit predicted a 95-percent survival rate for the redwoods. A survey of bird's nests would be conducted to make sure that no birds are harmed as trees are removed.
About a dozen of the redwoods on the site could remain in one of the two parks, Mayfield Park, but that may require an unattractive 6-foot retaining wall on the edge of the park. Neely said Summit is hoping to remove and replace the trees lower in the ground, but the feasibility of such a plan is uncertain.


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The last day of Devoxx 2008 - just as we got accustomed to long nights with only a few hours sleep. But well next year the show will continue. So today 3 real cool sessions were up. First we attended a session with Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo presenting on JRuby. Besides showing cool NetBeans integration with awsome code completion and giving an overview on how JRuby works they pointed out that JRuby in fact is Ruby running on a JVM. That is all - just take your Ruby application and let it run on the JVM to get the speed up offered by the JVM for your applicatoin for free. For the future they seem to consider moving the source of JRuby (or JRuby itself) over to Kenai - a new Open Source hosting solution - once they get the issuetracker integrated they need.
Next Brian Leonhart from SUN Microsystems talking about "Development beyond Localhost". It focused on "WOTE - Write Once Test Everywhere" using OpenSolaris and VirtualBox. Quite interesting approach and a real cool software. It is free - so give it a try.
Last talk of Devoxx 2008 was fellow NetBeans Dream Team member Adam Bien. who came to Antwerp only for delivering his talk - thanks Adam. He talked about EJB3.x and why he thinks that this is the real lightweight solution, although he is not in favor of calling something "lightweight". He did some real cool live coding using NetBeans 6.5 and the new "Deploy on Save" feature - it worked awesome. Should have convinced the audience that Glassfish and NetBeans is the way to go for Java EE.
So much for now - off for visiting Antwerp, getting some "Mussels with fries" a local specialty and a good Belgium beer.
BTW: I took photos from the whiteboards just friday morning - have a look at them here and figure out what is going on in the Java community.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Devoxx 2008 - Day 5 / finalize()
4 comments:
- pelegri said...
Hi Sven. I'd like to use your photos of the whiteboards in TheAquarium. Would that be OK with you? I see they are posted under "All rights reserved", so I felt I needed your OK.
You can reach us at "theaquarium at sun dot com". Or just post here, I'll track the thread.
- eduard/o
- December 13, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- antek said...
thx for motivating to join Devoxx 2008, I learned a lot and had fun there
keep up the good work
- December 14, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Brian Leonard said...
From the one developer in the audience who knew what WOTE meant :-).
- December 15, 2008 at 9:15 AM
- Sven said...
Just trying to be a match for the Sun evangelists ;-)
- December 22, 2008 at 11:17 AM
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David Leventi is a fine-art photographer based in New York. He received his BFA in Photography from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His photographs have been widely published in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, FT Weekend Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Esquire, amongst others. Leventi was selected by PDN as one of 2007's Top 30 Emerging Photographers. In 2008, his work was included in the Communication Arts Photography Annual and in American Photography 24, he received two Graphis Gold awards and was listed among the Critical Mass Top 50 Finalists by Photolucida. His work was recently selected for inclusion in The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2. Leventi is represented by Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and Bau-Xi Photo Gallery in Toronto.
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House Dems face uphill slog in 2014
Nancy Pelosi decided to take one more crack at winning back the House, but a big obstacle stands between the Democratic leader and the speaker's gavel in 2014: the six-year itch.
Pelosi's party will be swimming against the riptide of history. The party controlling the White House during a president's sixth year in office has lost seats in every midterm election but one since 1918, when Woodrow Wilson occupied the Oval Office. And the setbacks typically aren't small: The average loss in these elections was 30 seats. The exception was 1998, when a soaring economy and Republicans' focus on President Bill Clinton's affair helped Democrats buck the trend and pick up a handful of seats.
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Anger, exhaustion and frustration tend to set in among voters as presidents approach the last leg of their final term. It happened to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938 when voters recoiled at his New Deal reforms. Twenty years later, consternation over the economy cost Dwight Eisenhower 48 House seats. And in 2006, George W. Bush, presiding over two drawn-out wars in the Middle East, watched Republicans lose 30 seats and control of the House.
On the surface, the brass ring looks well within reach for Pelosi and her party: Democrats will need to flip only around 17 or 18 GOP seats to win the House. But that relatively modest gap probably masks the degree of difficulty.
"Voters get frustrated and there's burnout," said Andrew Myers, a Democratic pollster who counts many congressional candidates as clients. "It's overexposure. People are just ready for something different."
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For Republicans still licking their wounds after painful losses on Election Day and confronting questions about how to reposition themselves for the future, the pattern offers a ray of hope.
"History certainly says that the party in power is going to lose seats, and I expect that will be the case," said Wes Anderson, a Republican pollster and veteran of congressional politics. "I think the handwringing about the future of the party is fair but a little overwrought. Coming up you have the six-year itch and the midterms."
With the congressional agenda bound to be defined, at least in the near term, by a debate about spending and taxes, Republicans say they will seize on any opportunity to hammer Obama for overreaching or pursuing unpopular policies — an approach they used with success in the 2010 midterms.
"We'll see how bipartisan the agenda is, but I have a feeling he will be as liberal as he wants to be moving forward," said Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, the incoming National Republican Congressional Committee chairman.
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Some Republicans argue that the dynamic of the coming midterm favors them. Obama, whose reelection bid drove many voters to the polls on Nov. 6, won't be on the ballot in 2014, leaving congressional Democrats to fend for themselves. And there's a good chance, the Republicans say, that their voters will be more motivated than the other side the next time around.


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The T Dock over Noxontown Pond, St. Andrew's School, Middletown, Delaware
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Noxontown Pond on the grounds of St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware.
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Panoramic view from Seaview looking down towards Treasure Beach in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
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Fond memories of country life in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
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Windfarm in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Malvern, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
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Always happy to go to these parts of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica where my uncle and cousin still farm the land and tend to the animals.
On a hilltop overlooking Treasure Beach and Frenchmans Bay in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
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Walking through the Palisades Park enjoying the scenary on the banks of the Hudson River in New Jersey. New York State is on the other side of the river.
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The lawn at St. Andrew's School in Middletown Delaware with Noxontown Pond in the background.
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This was taken leaving the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. The foreground is the tram that takes you to the musuem. The 405, or San Diego Freeway, cuts through the hills of California.
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For more than 30 years, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has managed research aircraft. The flying testers form the platform for research missions of all kinds This picture shows the engine of the largest member of the research fleet, the Airbus A320-232 ATRA (Advanced Technology and Research Aircraft).
The Airbus A320 D-ATRA is 37.57 metres in length, 11.76 metres high and has a wing span of 34.10 metres.
The Cessna C208B Grand Caravan (registration D-FDLR) was converted into a 'flying auditorium' at the Oberpfaffenhofen flight facility.
The DLR Falcon 20E research aircraft was selected as the most appropriate aircraft for measurement flights. The Falcon has a full range of instruments to record flight dynamics and a nose boom that records the local incidence angle at the front of the aircraft in an undisturbed airflow.
The German Aerospace Center's (DLR) DG 300-17 measures the speed polar of other gliders. The results of these measurements make it possible to increase the cruise speed of non-powered aircraft.
The Dornier Do 228 101 is distinguished by some modifications from the standard specification.
The DLR research aircraft has a length of 16.56 metres (18.7 feet with nose boom), is 4.86 metres in height and has a wingspan of 16.97 metres.
The DR 400 D-EDVE aircraft is used by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) primarily as a glider tug.
The tasks for which the BO 105 helicopter is deployed include testing and measuring avionics systems and analysing helicopter properties.
Its optical and electronic control system enables the FHS to simulate the flight performance of other helicopters, using fly-by-light and fly-by-wire control.
HALO is 31 metres long - of which 1.6 metres is the nose boom. It is 7.9 metres tall and has a wingspan of 28.5 metres.
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Das DLR-Forschungsflugzeug LFU 205. Durch das Loch im Fenster sieht man die Infrarot-Messtechnik in der Kabine.
The 'chameleon aircraft' ATTAS celebrated its 25th birthday in October 2010.
Flight Operations of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in Braunschweig and Oberfaffenhofen (where the Flight Operations management is based) operates Europe's largest civilian research fleet of aeroplanes and helicopters. DLR Flight Operations (DLR Flugbetriebe) is responsible for providing and deploying these aircraft. These highly modified aircraft can either be the object for aeronautics research themselves, or they can be used as research platforms on which scientific equipment can be installed for observing Earth and the sea surface, or for atmospheric research.
About 75 employees are responsible for the aeroplanes and helicopters: technicians, engineers and pilots. DLR's 13 pilots are highly specialised, several of them hold a test pilot license. In regular flight simulator training sessions in the US and in Germany, they are trained in extraordinary flight situations and flight states. The special challenges of flying on scientific missions - for instance in the Eurocopter BO 105 with swinging external loads, or flying through strong turbulence, such as wake vortices, in the Falcon 20E - make such training indispensable.
Up to 30 scientific missions per year are entered into each aircraft's flight logs. This amounts to up to 250 flight hours in the service of science. Each of these assignments, however, requires detailed and technologically intensive preparation. This includes the often extensive modifications made to the aircraft, sometimes even at the aerospace engineering level. The requisite development and certification procedure can be handled internally by DLR. Development and airworthiness engineers at DLR's flight facilities and research institutes are entrusted with these tasks. Depending on the specific scientific task at hand, it can take several months to complete such a certification procedure. Relatively small modifications can be certified by DLR itself, while larger modifications - including structural changes to the aircraft - are implemented in cooperation with the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (German Federal Office of Aviation; LBA).
The DLR research fleet is deployed over water, icy surfaces and land across the globe, from Greenland and Spitsbergen all the way down to Antarctica, and from the US via Europe and Russia to Japan.
These institutions provide scientific services, both for DLR research programmes and for other national and international institutions, for public authorities and industrial clients. The German Federal Office of Aviation (LBA) has accredited DLR Flight Operations as aerospace engineering facility capable of independently carrying out maintenance work on its aircraft. In cooperation with DLR's own Design Organisation (Entwicklungsbetrieb), DLR Flight Operations is able to practically completely independently perform the certification procedure for modifications to aircraft for the integration and alteration of scientific components.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Gains in health care and technology sector stocks on the back of impressive profits from Biogen Idec Inc. and Apple Inc. pushed the S&P 500 to close at a record on Wednesday.
The S&P 500 SPX, -0.26% closed 3.48 points, or 0.2%, higher at 1,987.01, closing at a record level for the 26th time this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.44% was weighed down by Boeing Inc. and closed 26.91 points, or 0.2%, lower at 17,086.63. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.46% ended the session up 17.68 points, or 0.4%, to 4,473.70, with biotechnology companies leading the gains.
Read the recap of MarketWatch's live blog of today's stock-market action.
Investors seemed to have brushed off news that two Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down Wednesday near where Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed as well as continued ground attacks on Gaza.
Kim Caughey Forrest, investment strategist at Fort Pitt Capital said that geopolitical issues in the Middle East and Ukraine, may not affect businesses in the short-term, but in the long-term, "we will be affected if American companies cannot move freely in the world."
"At this point, overall earnings growth has already been priced in. Wall Street's full-year earnings estimates are too optimistic and eventually will come down," Forrest added.
The data calendar was empty for Wednesday, leaving investors to fix their attention on corporate earnings.
Biogen Idec Inc. BIIB, +0.51% jumped 11% after the biotechnology company's latest earnings results impressed investors all around, beating estimates on sales, profits, and guidance for the full fiscal year.
Boeing BA, -1.55% fell 2.3% even as the plane manufacturer lifted its core earnings-per-share outlook for 2014.
PepsiCo PEP, -0.87% rallied 2% after the company's second-quarter profit beat estimates and it lifted earnings guidance.
Delta Air Lines Inc. shares DAL, +0.14% climbed 3.7% after the company's second-quarter profit jumped 17%, driven by higher passenger and operating revenue. Read more about the day's notable movers here.
Investors also reacted to big tech earnings that came late Tuesday. Apple AAPL, +0.36% shares rose 2.6% after earnings that topped expectations. Also read: 5 reasons why Apple shares could rise another 16% this year.
After the close, Facebook Inc. FB, -0.69% reported second-quarter earnings that topped estimates as revenue surged 61%. Shared rallied 3% in after-hours trading. Read: Live blog of Facebook's earnings call.
Among other markets, the Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, -0.16% edged up 0.1% Wednesday, while Asia ADOW, -0.50% also logged a mostly-higher finish.
Crude oil prices CLU24, -49.87% rose ahead of key supply data, while gold prices US:GCQ4 were flat. The dollar rose against the British pound GBPUSD, +0.4504% GBPUSD, +0.4504% after minutes from the Bank of England's July meeting showed all members voted to keep monetary policy loose.
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