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An effects-laden vision of Montreal in the future, a magical adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece Midnight’s Children, a 3D take on kids’ hockey, and a sci-fi-tinged thriller centred on our celebrity-obsessed culture are among the Canadian films expected to hit theatres in 2012. Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- All too often, large growth funds have followed a volatile pattern. During bull markets, the growth funds soared as investors bid up prices of fast-moving technology and consumer stocks. Then the rally ended and growth stocks crashed hard as overvalued shares sank. Because of the regular collapses, the large growth category has often trailed large value. From 1928 through Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- An optimistic batch of data released over the past few days has left some investors wondering if, after years of floundering, housing is at last showing some signs of a comeback. Despite lingering concerns about a global economic slowdown, homebuilders appear to be getting work. Wednesday's report managed to come in at an annualized rate of 658,000 housing starts. Though Read More »
Touting return Monday to television, O’Donnell talks guests, Oprah and Depends. Read More »
BOSTON (MainStreet) -- Halloween these days is as much about filing coffers as empty coffins. The scariest numbers this October may be upcoming jobs reports and perhaps your 401(k) statement. The digits associated with the spooky holiday, by contrast, may bring smiles more so than shrieks. Halloween pulls its own weight when it comes to adding some welcome spending to the U.S. economy. Read More »
When Hurricane Irene hit, Rich Rossi was without electricity for six days. Read More »
BOSTON (TheStreet) -- The mutual fund industry this year has been overrun by a stampede out of U.S. stocks and into safer alternatives, namely large-company and bond funds, much as in 2008 when the financial industry needed a bailout to survive. Investors pulled $14.6 billion from U.S. equity mutual funds and put $102 billion into taxable bond funds through the end of July, said Ryan Leggio, a m Read More »
Sasha Menu Courey suffered from borderline personality disorder, an illness that eventually took her life. Her parents say she couldn't get the treatment she needed quickly enough in Canada. Read More »
Arizona's Rep. Gabrielle Giffords draws applause and a crowd on the House floor when she shows up to vote for the debt-limit bill, her first Capitol visit since being shot in the head in January. Read More »
These days, it is the GOP that may give serious consideration to a reconstituted Austin-Boston connection: A New England politician with a suspiciously moderate past may come to realize that he needs what a certain Southern governor with tea party and evangelical bona fides has to offer. Read More »
The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (The FRED Report) -- Here at The FRED Report, we have been forecasting a correction since April, and the market has now come down to the levels from which a rally could begin. While we emphasize that many of Read More »
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will spend the weekend preparing for the next set of negotiations, energized by this week's secret talks that he believes show both sides are committed to ending the labor dispute. Read More »
The energy market is becoming an extremely dangerous place for investors thanks to numerous risks that threaten to crush profits in the near term. Obviously, the most direct example is in Japan, where the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has led to a sell-off in nuclear power companies around the world. Additionally, we have again been reminded of the risks of oil drilling as Read More »
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In the last few years investors have gained a new awareness of the agriculture investment theme. This sector has benefited from the recent overall lift in commodity prices and from improving diets in many emerging-market nations. The go-to exchange-traded fund for this theme has been the Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF, but that might be changing. There have been other Read More »
Israeli comedy A Matter of Size takes The Full Monty to the sumo ring. Read More »
No Mr. Wise Guy today. The world is facing two crises in Japan and MENA. The nuclear issue in Japan appears out of control. At the same time, this tragedy is masking what's going in MENA as Gadhafi takes control and in Bahrain where the weird Sunni/Shiite battles rage. With the latter, it's like a primitive religious war the west experienced centuries ago (save Ireland) with Catholics fighting Read More »
Commissioner Roger Goodell thinks it would be a "shame" if the NFLPA diverts top prospects from this year's NFL draft. Read More »
Editor's note: This piece originally ran earlier today on our newest Premium service, ETF Profits. Click here for a 14-day trial to this exciting product! The headlines are concentrating on the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The devastation there is widespread and tragic to say the very least. Heading into today, much of the world was interested in how the planned demonstrations -- t Read More »
Editor's note: This piece originally ran earlier today on our newest Premium service, ETF Profits. Click here for a 14-day trial to this exciting product! They say that money makes the world go round. But if the firms that lend and invest money are having difficulties, what does that mean for the other sectors of the market? The function of the financial sector is to efficiently supply capital t Read More »
Dead men do indeed tell takes in Penelope Buitenhuis’s Canadian indie film, A Wake. Read More »
Uh-oh. If reports out of Australia are true, Tony Stewart is riled up again. And that could be bad news for reigning five-time Cup champ Jimmie Johnson. Read More »
  A FEW BULLS CHARGE OUT OF THE GATE ... Click to view a price quote on SPY. Click to research the Financial Services industry. Read More »
A new song by Justin Bieber has been leaked online, according to Billboard.com Read More »
Said Saber’s eyes teared up as he looked at the nook just inside the door of the West Side Pharmacy, where John Lennon would wait his turn to make an order.= Read More »
Touring can make your career, if it doesn't break up your band. So for musicians, it's both the dream and, at times, an arduous ordeal. Read More »

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