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Floods that have killed 450 people in India and Pakistan began to recede on Wednesday giving rescue teams a chance to evacuate thousands of villagers stranded by the heaviest rainfall in 50 years in the heavily militarized and disputed region of Kashmir.
On the Indian side of the divided region, floods and landslides have cut off more than 1 million people from basic services, triggering a massive military rescue operation that has so far evacuated 80,000 from villages and city rooftops.Tempers rose on Wednesday with some angry that relief efforts were only reaching them six days after the floods began. Others complained about living conditions in temporary camps. Villagers heckled some soldiers and beat a rescue official who was airlifted for emergency treatment.The flooding is the first major humanitarian emergency under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and also comes at a difficult time for Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who has faced weeks of street protests aimed at forcing him out."There are some villages where everything has been swept away. People are extremely angry, frustrated and exhausted," Indian police official R.K. Khan said.

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WEEK AHEAD

Investors look forward to a week full of earnings reports that could either push the market
lower, through more key technical levels, or stem some of the recent selling in what's been an
overall volatile period for the markets. Big banks including Wells Fargo and American Express
report along with Intel and other bellwethers. The bond market should continue to benefit from
safe-haven flows and expectations that the Fed will keep taking things slow, and the dollar's
direction is a mixed one, but should rebound a bit from weakness this week if investors get
signals of more strong economic figures in the United States.

Internet ad titan Google releases third-quarter earnings on Thursday after the bell. The
undisputed king of traditional Internet advertising is struggling to meet Wall Street
expectations as it begins to delve deeper into mobile ads, an area where Facebook and Twitter
are also vying. The company missed targets last quarter after a run of consistent performance,
so investors will be watching both paid clicks (a measure of volume) and cost-per-click
(generally, prices) when it reports quarterly earnings.

JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will release third-quarter results and
begin a conference call with analysts before the stock market opens on Tuesday. The conference
call is expected to be CEO Jamie Dimon's first with securities analysts since undergoing
treatment for throat cancer during the summer. The announcement will come during a morning in
which the third- and fourth-biggest banks, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, also plan to announce and
discuss their third-quarter results. Wells Fargo will likely show an improvement in its home
loan unit after suffering four straight quarters of declines.

Bank of America, the second-largest U.S. bank, will likely report on Wednesday a loss for the
third quarter after it takes a $5.3 billion charge to cover part of the $16.65 billion
settlement it reached with U.S. authorities. Despite the expense of the settlement, it largely
lifted the cloud of legal uncertainty over the bank, so the state of its underlying businesses
will take center stage for the first time in years.

The world's biggest credit card issuer, American Express's, third-quarter results on Wednesday
are expected to beat estimates, according to StarMine, helped by lower loan-loss reserves and a
rise in consumer spending. American Express's growth depends mostly on its affluent customers,
people who have been pretty consistent with their spending in spite of the global recession.
Another credit card issuer, Capital One Financial also posts third-quarter results on Thursday.
The company is expected to benefit from lower credit losses and increased spending in the United
States as more people use cards to make payments.

Goldman Sachs will report earnings for the third quarter on Thursday before the bell. Higher
revenue from stock underwriting and a smaller decline in fixed-income trading spurred the bank's
second-quarter earnings.

Morgan Stanley will report earnings for the third quarter on Friday before the bell. It was
another strong quarter for investment banking activity on Wall Street, though trading businesses
are still experiencing light volumes. Now that the bank has more than half of its revenue coming
from wealth and asset management, that will help offset any weakness in trading. Investors will
be watching to see whether Morgan Stanley gets closer to targets for improving return-on-equity
and boosting profitability within wealth management.

On Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department issues Housing Starts for September, which declined 14.4
percent to a seasonally adjusted annual 956,000-unit pace in August. On Thursday, the Labor
Department issues weekly Jobless Claims numbers. The level of initial jobless claims is expected
to rise by 3,000 to 290,000. The Commerce Department is scheduled to issue the data for retail
sales for September. Retail sales, which increased 0.6 percent last month, is likely to drop by
0.1 percent in September. Separately, on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve issues its so-called
Beige Book, a compendium of anecdotes on the health of the economy drawn from the central bank's
sources across the nation.

On Friday, General Electric's third-quarter earnings are expected to be driven by higher sales
of its jet engines and oil and gas equipment, as the U.S. conglomerate tries to convince
investors of its strategy of becoming a more-focused infrastructure company, with improved
profit margins and a simpler organization. Analysts will look for updates on recent
transactions, including GE's $16.9 billion deal for the power assets of France's Alstom,
spin-off of its North American credit card business, and sale of its appliances unit, which are
designed to give GE more exposure to industrial businesses. GE's shares have underperformed the
broader U.S. indices this year.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks on Friday before the "Inequality of Economic
Opportunity in the United States" conference in Boston. Separately, on Thursday Yellen tours
CONNECT facility and meets with consortium leaders and local residents to hear about conditions
in the local economy and the impact of CONNECT for residents entering or re-enter the workforce.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley gives introductory remarks and
presides over a dinner of the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday. Other speakers include
Peterson Foundation Chairman and CEO Peter Peterson and former Federal Reserve chairs Alan
Greenspan and Paul Volcker. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser
speaks on the economic outlook before the Lehigh Valley Partnership, Lehigh Valley Economic
Development Meeting on Thursday. Separately, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis
Lockhart and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George give welcome and
opening remarks before the "Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st
Century" conference.

BlackRock Inc, the world's largest money manager, is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings
results on Wednesday before the market opens. Analysts expect the New York-based asset manager,
which now manages more than $4 trillion in assets, to earn $4.69 per share, up from $3.88 per
share a year earlier.

Johnson & Johnson is the first big pharma company to report third-quarter earnings on Tuesday,
in which profit is expected to have increased. The company's Olysio treatment for hepatitis C
may once again be a bright spot - it helped the company beat Wall Street expectations last
quarter - even as its Olysio sales are expected to drop sharply in coming months when it is
likely to be supplanted by a new treatment from competitor Gilead.

On Thursday, investors will have an eye on UnitedHealth Group, the first managed care company to
report on the third quarter. UnitedHealth's earnings are expected to be about flat from a year
ago, a reflection of the government's tough line on payments for Medicare services and less
growth in the employer-based healthcare services business. One bright spot is once again
expected to be its Optum unit, which includes healthcare technology and specialty pharmacy
benefit management.

Chipmaker Intel Corp posts third-quarter earnings on Tuesday after the bell. Intel will most
likely have enjoyed a bit of a topline boost in the last quarter when PC sales trickled back in
its largest U.S. market, but the industry bellwether's guidance will attract more scrutiny,
coming as it does after a string of smaller semiconductor industry players have warned of
lackluster results. Separately, Cypress Semiconductor is likely to report a better-than-expected
third-quarter profit on Thursday, according to StarMine data. Analysts are looking for the
company to start delivering revenue growth in this quarter and for the second half of the year.

On Friday, Honeywell is expected to post third-quarter revenue growth of 4 percent, with the
biggest sales jump in its performance materials and technologies unit that makes chemicals used
in oil and other sectors. Honeywell's shares have held up better this year than those of rival
U.S. diversified manufacturers. The company has signaled its plans to get more aggressive with
acquisitions over the next few years. Effective with this report, Honeywell is posting its
transportation business that makes turbochargers inside its aerospace division.

Textron, the maker of Bell helicopters and Cessna business jets, is expected to post higher
third-quarter revenue and profit on Friday, helped by a rise in deliveries of business jets.
With improving business confidence, deliveries of business jets are expected to rise, while
those of bell helicopters are expected to drop or remain flat due to lower government spending.
Investors will be looking for details on 2015 outlook.

Oilfield services providers Schlumberger Ltd and Baker Hughes Inc are expected to report higher
profits for the third quarter on Thursday. The results will put the spotlight on a recent
recovery in drilling activity in North America, following a two-year slump. Higher revenue and
margins in North America are expected to help the companies offset weakness in Russia and Iraq,
where drilling activity has been subdued due to geopolitical tensions. Schlumberger, which
generates about 4 to 5 percent of its revenue from Russia, warned in August that U.S. and EU
sanctions against Russia would hurt its third-quarter profit by as much as 3 cents per share.
Schlumberger is more heavily dependent on revenue from international operations than Baker
Hughes, whose operations are nearly all concentrated in North America. Baker Hughes is also
expected to benefit from a seasonal rebound in activity in Canada.

Memory chipmaker SanDisk Corp is expected to report third-quarter revenue and profit above
estimates on Thursday. Analysts are expecting strong growth in solid state drives, but are
becoming more cautious on NAND suppliers, after the Chinese government said it would source 40
percent of its semiconductors domestically. Separately, programmable chipmaker Xilinix Inc is
expected to report second-quarter revenue and profit on the same day in line with analysts'
estimates, according to StarMine data, which may reflect a slowdown in the semiconductor market.
Analysts will be looking at how the company's collaboration with China Mobile to deploy LTE
basestations is panning out. Investors are also keen to know how Xilinx's new products are
faring against competitor Altera's.

On Tuesday, Omnicom Group, the No.1 U.S. advertising company, is likely to report third-quarter
profit above analysts' estimates, according to StarMine, helped by higher ad spending in the
United States. In July, the company said it was sticking with its annual organic revenue growth
target, showing little effect from its aborted $35 billion merger with France's Publicis Group.
Investors will look forward to updates on full-year forecast and management commentary on ad
spending trends.

Netflix will reveal its latest subscriber numbers when the video streaming service reports
third-quarter results after U.S. markets close on Wednesday. The company is expected to provide
an update on its recent launch into major European countries and its new push into original
movies. Wall Street analysts project Netflix will report earnings per share of 90 cents for the
September quarter, up from 52 cents a year earlier.

Baxter International, the medical device and drugmaker will be reporting a third-quarter profit
on Thursday, which is likely to beat estimates for the fourth straight quarter, three months
into selling its vaccines business to Pfizer Inc. Baxter's medical products business, which
includes intravenous fluid systems, dialysis, biosurgery and some specialty pharmaceuticals such
as anesthesia and nutrition, has traditionally helped the company beat estimates. The company,
which plans to spin off its biotechnology operations next year, had earlier raised its full-year
adjusted profit forecast to $5.10-$5.20 per share from $5.05-$5.25.

Mattel reports third-quarter results on Thursday before the bell. A lack of innovation and a
sluggish response to competition has crimped growth at the toymaker, leading it to lose its
mantle of being the world's largest toymaker to Lego. Mattel says it has taken several steps to
be better positioned for the holiday season with a slew of launches in the back half of the
year, but that can only be seen when the holiday season ends. Investors will be keen on hearing
details about the new toy launches and how the company is ramping up production to meet holiday
season demand from retailers.

Kansas City Southern, the railroad operator, is expected to report higher third-quarter revenue
and profits as it was likely to ship more agriculture products and automobiles. Kansas City
Southern operates on a unique, north-south route in central U.S. and derives half of its annual
revenue from cross-border trade with Mexico, which rose during the quarter. Investors will be
looking for an update on 2015 outlook.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, formed from the merger between Italian auto group Fiat and its U.S.
unit Chrysler, will list on the NYSE in a bid to boosts its investor pool and get access to a
wider range of equity and debt financing sources. The merged group will have a secondary listing
in Milan. Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said that a decision on any capital increase would
be made at the end of October.

After rebuffing Rupert Murdoch's offer, Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes will face
investors on Wednesday to make the case that Time Warner is better off going it alone rather
than combining with Fox. Bewkes will lay out his five-year vision for each division: the
troubled Turner Broadcasting, movie studio Warner Bros., and pay TV juggernaut HBO.

Briefing documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff will give investors an
idea of what the agency has in store for Pfizer's controversial quit-smoking drug Chantix. The
drug, which was approved in 2006, has since seen only trouble with questions about its safety.
The documents, on Tuesday will hint at the FDA's thoughts on whether it needs to take additional
steps on the suicidal side-effects. The Advisory Committee will vote on the same on Oct. 16.
Separately, on the same day FDA will give its preliminary view on Novartis AG's marketing
application for its plaque psoriasis drug.

Fiber network company Zayo Group Holdings' IPO is expected to raise about $694 million on
Friday, valuing the company at up to $5.7 billion. Zayo, whose rivals include CenturyLink and
Equinix, has a network covering about 300 countries, connecting the largest U.S. and European
cities. The company's revenue almost tripled to about $1 billion in 2013, but net loss widened
to $137.2 million from $1.2 million a year earlier.

The IPO of Great Western Bancorp, the U.S. subsidiary of National Australia Bank, is expected to
raise about $384 million, valuing the lender at up to $1.4 billion. NAB, Australia's No. 4
lender by market value, acquired regional lender Great Western in 2008 for just below $1 billion
to get more involved in funding agribusiness in the United States. Great Western has about 200
locations in several states including Arizona and Colorado and has assets in excess of $8
billion. Great Western will be the latest to join a string of financial institutions listing
this year, including Ally Financial, investor Wilbur Ross-backed Talmer Bancorp and Royal Bank
of Scotland Group's U.S. unit, Citizens Financial.

On Wednesday, Chris Chadwick, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, will speak
at a forum on defense and security hosted by the Center for a New American Security. Other
participants include Christine Fox, assistant director for policy and analysis at the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and retired Air Force Gen. Charles Wald, vice
chairman and senior adviser at Deloitte Services.

Statistics Canada will release the inflation data for September on Friday. Canada's annual
inflation rate was steady at 2.1 percent in August, but the closely watched core rate
unexpectedly jumped above the 2-percent threshold.

On Friday, Mexico's jobless data will reveal how the unemployment rate fared in September, after
falling in August to 4.87 percent when adjusted for seasonal swings. On the same day, Peru's
central bank posts the August trade balance. The global minerals exporter has logged a $2.61
billion trade deficit in the first seven months of 2014 as its mineral shipments have tumbled.

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Wave Systems to Present at Craig-Hallum Alpha Select Conference Thursday, September 18

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NEW YORK, July 23, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verde Media Group Inc. (OTC:VMGI) is an emerging growth biotechnology company. Through its subsidiary, Beautyject Inc., it will provide needle-free injectable devices with a unique patented technology and design. Verde Media CEO, William Veve introduced the product prior to its official launch in North and South American markets during the months to come. Mr. Veve was interviewed live by host Amilya Antonetti on ABC Talk Radio's "The Amilya Show."
The cosmetic needle-free products will be marketed in clinical form for professionals. However, the company is looking to its over-the-counter delivery system for consumer use as its most lucrative product line. Boutique marketing firm, Power Shark Capital, advised by Kevin Harrington from ABC's series, "Shark Tank," will be orchestrating the official large-scale release of the product as well as sales and distribution functions in conjunction with Verde. 
In the exclusive interview, Mr. Veve discussed the company's subsidiary BeautyJect, Inc., commenting specifically, "on its new needle-free, over-the-counter cosmetic injectable devices and needle-free syringes."  The interview also delved into the application of these products and the feedback expected by healthcare communities embracing the introduction of needle-free devices.
"The Amilya Show" radio broadcast has a wide reach and represented a unique opportunity to pre-release the product from the VMGI subsidiary, Beautyject Inc. ABC / Cumulus Radio reaches 150 million monthly listeners and serves 110 cities through 525 radio stations in the U.S. alone. 77WABC-AM in New York is the most-listened-to talk radio station in the country.

Diageo Honored By Connecticut Chapter of Lambda Legal for Commitment to LGBT Equality
Recognition Highlights Diageo's Support of LGBT Community and Inclusive Corporate Policies

One of the men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing twice disrupted sermons to challenge views expressed by preachers leading services at a local mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston said on Monday.
But the suspect, named by the FBI as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, "never expressed any hint of violent sentiments or behavior," the group said in a statement. "If they had, the FBI would have immediately been called."Tamerlan, suspected of planting one of two bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 200 at the marathon, was killed in a shoot out with police on Thursday. Dzhokhar, taken into custody a day later, allegedly planted the second bomb, according to a federal criminal complaint filed on Monday.Neither of the ethnic Chechen brothers was a member or regular attendee of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, mosque, it said.The older brother first interrupted a sermon at the society's mosque in Cambridge on November 16, 2012, objecting to a preacher's call for Muslims to celebrate holidays like July 4th and Thanksgiving just like the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, the society said.And on January 18, 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev again rose, objecting to a preacher who called civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a great person.