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May 18, 2015 MONEY (MSM)

Billionaire Icahn: Apple's shares are worth $240

Apple Inc., which already announced it was boosting its capital return program by $70 billion, should increase its stock buyback, Carl Icahn wrote in a letter to the company. “Apple is poised to enter and in our view dominate two new categories (the television next year and the automobile by 2020) with a combined addressable market of $2.2 trillion, a view investors don’t appear to factor into their valuation at

May 18, 2015 AUTOS

Watch the Lamborghini Aventador SV Break 7 Minutes at the ‘Ring

– Want to unleash an aural assault of 740 V-12 horses on your skull? Watch the fastest, lightest, most bonkers version of Lamborghini’s Aventador absolutely devour the Nürburgring with a lap time that appears to slice under the seven-minute barrier. – Naturally, this isn’t just any Aventador. It’s the Aventador LP750-4 Superveloce, the lightweight, aero-intensive, carbon-fiber-to-the-max screamer with 50 more horses and 110 fewer pounds than the off-the-rack model. Lamborghini will

May 18, 2015 WORLD HEADLINES

Shi'ite forces move in on Iraqi city taken by Islamic State

A column of 3,000 Shi’ite militia fighters arrived at a military base near Ramadi on Monday as Baghdad moved to retake the western Iraqi city that has fallen to Islamic State militants in the biggest defeat for the government since mid-2014. Setting the stage for renewed fighting over the city, Islamic State militants advanced in armored vehicles from Ramadi towards the base where the Shi’ite paramilitaries were massing for a