PRETTY pissed off right now.

happy monday

A 19-year-old Queens man was killed in a crash on the Grand Central Parkway in Kew Gardens late Thursday night, police say.

The driver was going westbound in the middle lane of the parkway behind another vehicle near Union Turnpike and tried to change lanes, according to police. As he did so, he rear-ended the car in front of him, which caused him to lose control, hit a metal guardrail and overturn onto the roadway.

The victim, identified as Andy Ramdhanie of Hollis, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The occupants in the car that was hit -- a 57-year-old woman, a 23-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man -- were taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center with minor neck and back pain, police said.

(Reuters) - U.S. and European leaders agreed on Monday to impose wider sanctions on Russia's financial, defense and energy sectors as Ukraine said its forces advanced toward the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17.

The new sanctions, which U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders of Germany, Britain, France and Italy discussed in a conference call, are aimed at increasing the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin after the Malaysian airliner was shot down over territory held by pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine.

"It's precisely because we've not yet seen a strategic turn from Putin that we believe it's absolutely essential to take additional measures and that's what the Europeans and the United States intend to do this week," said Tony Blinken, a national security adviser to Obama.

NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended nearly flat on Monday as the latest deal news offset losses following discouraging data on the housing market and some signs of weakness in the services sector.

Dollar Tree Inc offered to buy rival discount chain Family Dollar Stores Inc for about $8.5 billion. The transaction, including debt, values Family Dollar at about $9.2 billion. Family Dollar's stock shot up 24.9 percent to $75.74 and was the S&P 500's biggest percentage gainer. Dollar Tree's shares gained 1.2 percent to $54.87.

In other deal news, Zillow Inc agreed to buy Trulia Inc for $3.5 billion in stock in a deal that would combine the two most popular U.S. real estate website operators Trulia's shares jumped 15.4 percent to $65.04. Zillow's stock rose 0.9 percent to $160.32.

Investors' optimism, however, was limited by the day's economic data, among the latest to suggest that the economy's momentum was slowing.

An index of pending home sales unexpectedly fell 1.1 percent in June, the National Association of Realtors said. The report followed an 8.1 percent drop of new home sales in June, the biggest slump in almost a year. The PHLX housing sector index tumbled 1.4 percent. Shares of D.R. Horton Inc, the No. 1 U.S. homebuilder, slipped 0.6 percent to $21.48.

I believe that good things come to those who work

There are ping pong rallies & then there are RIDICULOUS 41-shot rallies like this one in the Commonwealth Games. es.pn/1xuSzi6

Twitter shares rose about 1.5 percent today to close at $38.49. Now, no surprise, the stock is up 24 percent in after-hours trading.

Oracle cuts Ellison’s share options award on.ft.com/1nRXSsj

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