Total revenue in the fourth quarter stood at $3,991 million, up 9% year over year and above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3,922 million.

The ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters cut their Eurozone 2014 GDP estimate to +0.8% from +1.0% in Aug and lowered their 2014 inflation forecast to +0.5% from +0.7% in Aug.

Eurozone Sep industrial production rose +0.6% m/m, less than expectations of +0.7% m/m, although Aug was revised upward to -1.4% m/m from the originally reported -1.8% m/m.

Twenty-First Century Fox's Rupert Murdoch is determined to buy Time Warner Inc after the media conglomerate rejected an $80 billion buyout offer from Twenty-First Century Fox Inc, the New York Times reported.

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