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(TheStreet) -- When you've spent months waiting for a little bit of relaxation, the first thing you hear when you reach your vacation spot shouldn't be "Spring break! Woooo!" This is the season when much of young America congregates in warm, southern climates to ingest beer from funnels attached...

(TheStreet) -- Japan's currency was retreating from an earthquake-induced surge Friday, but Japanese exporters remained pressured Monday morning. The U.S. dollar was flat against the Japanese currency at 81.902 yen, the U.K. pound was trading 0.1% higher at 131.874 yen and the euro was up 0.3% at...

(TheStreet) -- A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii and the entire California coast following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that slammed Japan's northeastern coast on Friday. High waves started hitting the Hawaiian coast on Friday morning as the state's citizens brace themselves for wave...

(TheStreet) -- From "the bigger they are..." category comes the tale of book giant Borders, which is closing 200 of its 659 stores as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. I guess my first question is, "If they're 200 stores too large, who made that growth decision, and is he or she running...

(TheStreet) -- Facebook took some air out of the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) balloon when it announced its own movie streaming service Tuesday. Working with Warner Brothers Digital Distribution, Facebook is testing a video service that will let users rent movies for $3, or 30 Facebook credits. The...

(TheStreet) -- Retailers are facing a cotton conundrum. As the price for the fiber hits an all-time high, it has no longer become a question of if retailers will raise prices, but whether cash-strapped consumers will be willing to shell out more for their t-shirts and jeans. Inflated ticket prices...

(TheStreet) -- It appears that the "civil unrest" (interesting term) in Wisconsin won't end soon and is spreading to other states. Good. The tab has finally come due and most of us have reached for our wallet ... and some of us apparently left it in the car. Time to go get it. Based on some reader...

(TheStreet) -- Handle that cocktail frank on a toothpick with care the next time you're taking a taste at the end of a grocery aisle: Someone may have a lot invested in that free sample. Those little card tables full of plastic tasting cups or stands serving skewered samples of various products are...

(TheStreet) -- Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA), the world's only electric-car company, is an emerging power among automakers, a newcomer to an innovation-starved industry. Tesla, named after Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, was incorporated in 2003 and unveiled its first car, the Roadster, in 2007. With...

(TheStreet) -- Want to buy a Verizon (NYSE: VZ) iPhone, but you didn't pre-order and you don't want to stand in line at the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) or Verizon store? Maybe you'd like to be efficient and make the trip to get the phone while picking up a few other things, like a loaf of bread. Think...

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(TheStreet)--The Hartford(NYSE: HIG), a besmirched insurer that accepted TARP money, has become an attractive investment. Its stock ranks fifth-cheapest among S&P 500 components, based on forward earnings. Analysts offer a middling view, with eight rating it "buy," 11 rating it "hold" and one...

(TheStreet) -- Morningstar, the value-focused research firm, covers more than 1,700 stocks, 34 of which receive the highest rating of five stars. Of those, the following 10 trade at a deep discount to fair value. As the economy gathers steam, these companies' businesses will improve and their...

(TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks with market values of $500 million to $2 billion, so-called small-caps, have delivered an average gain of 25% so far in 2010, placing second after mid-caps, which rose 26%. Still, the top-performing small-caps led the market, with many doubling and some even quadrupling....

(TheStreet) -- Investors really fell for a few tech stocks this year. And while some deserved your whole-hearted admiration, some others could be trouble and may well break your heart next year. Earlier this month we put a spotlight on the top five biggest gainers in tech. Those were the stocks...