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(TheStreet) -- Product placement is nothing new. For many years the makers of hit movies and TV shows have defrayed the cost of their productions by selling ad space in ways that can be either clever or blatant. We expect to see James Bond in hot cars, wearing designer watches and single-handedly...

(TheStreet) -- Pierre Bonneau gets a lot of phone calls like this one. An elderly woman who had come across a pile of forgotten stock certificates while sorting through her files. The certificates were from 1959 and bore the name General Telephone. Bonneau's business, founded by his parents in...

(TheStreet) -- Pandora (NYSE: P) debuts on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday pressuring Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI) shares. The Internet radio company's initial public offering was priced at $16 a share, significantly more than its indicative range of $10 to $11 a share. The company raised $235...

(TheStreet) -- The older I get, the more I relate to the saying, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Just a few years ago, for example, the news dominating the headlines was Elliot Spitzer's political scandal. Fast forward and the only thing that seems to have changed is the name...

(TheStreet) -- The stock market has fallen for six straight weeks as the economy has cooled, pulling down benchmark interest rates. Yet, prices for food and gas have risen, worrying investors. All of this has occurred even though Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says inflation isn't a problem...

(TheStreet) -- A business owner is never off duty. When you're the one in charge, working nights and weekends is part of the deal. But that doesn't mean you should never take a break. Stepping away for a week or two just might be the secret to keeping your business -- and yourself -- in good shape...

(TheStreet) -- The "risk-off" trade, which has pummeled the stock market, has led to the outperformance of defensive sectors, including telecommunication, utility and health-care stocks. Still, energy, the most profitable sector so far in 2011, is holding up well. S&P 500 oil-and-gas stocks...

(TheStreet) -- Though wildly popular, the natural gas industry has been notoriously tricky to target from an investment perspective. Fans of the fuel source, however, were given a welcomed vote of confidence at the start of this week when the Energy Information Administration released a shining...

(TheStreet) -- The U.S. economy has entered a period of sustained if fragile growth. Companies have reduced hiring even in the wake of the recovery, leaving many of them with rising profits and ample stockpiles of cash. Despite lingering concerns that economic growth could weaken again, companies...

(TheStreet) -- American consumers are reordering their spending priorities by doing without, and they're trading down by buying cheaper store brands instead of designer labels. An uncertain job market coupled with a money squeeze on necessities such as food and fuel has them changing their shopping...

(TheStreet) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has indicated that the hurdle for QE3 is very high. Other Fed governors have echoed this sentiment and, given the QE2-backlash from politicians and the recent ramp in commodity prices, the Fed wouldn't consider more easing unless deflation...

(TheStreet) -- LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) set the bar pretty high for initial public offerings with its scorching debut last month, and that kind of trading can help the wider IPO market by fueling demand for the next batch of new companies to go public. The vast majority of retail investors, of...

(TheStreet) -- Two important pieces appeared over the holiday weekend to increase the enormous interest being generated in shale oil -- one a research report from Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and an in-depth piece by the New York Times. Both pieces point investors in one common direction - towards...

(TheStreet) -- For investors who are rightly impatient with an anemic banking sector, TheStreet has compiled a list of 10 bank stocks priced under $5 with the most upside, based on consensus price targets. Several names on the list are speculative, with large price declines over the past year, as...

(TheStreet) -- High gasoline prices, combined with a shortage of some Japanese vehicles, are creating a seller's market for some fuel-efficient vehicles like the Ford (NYSE: F) Focus and GM's (NYSE: GM) Chevrolet Cruze. But we're talking about cars that capture the moment, not just because they...