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    Americans are at their most optimistic since 2007 according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment. The preliminary index has shown optimism increased to 83.7 in May as stocks surged and real estate climbed. With record stock prices boosting household wealth and unemployment down in some areas, consumers were able to see their way through the effects of ...

  • Apple Supplier Anjies Stock Rally Lifts Chinese Couple Into Billionaire Wealth Ranks

    A run-up in the stock price of Apple supplier Suzhou Anjie Technology lifted the company's controlling shareholders into to the world's billionaire ranks last week. Shares in Anjie, an insulation supplier, rose from 72.1 yuan, or $11.8, on May 10 at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange to 89.1 yuan on Thursday. They ended the week at 87.88 yuan on Friday. Chairman Wang Chunsheng and his wife, ...

  • Russia Building Terrorist Killing Robo-Cop

    Russia developing lethal autonomous robots to help engage in the fight on terrorism, the government said on Friday. You might have thought the world of lethal autonomous robots would be sole be here in the United States, or Japan. Both countries are working on their own version of robotic soldiers. And now Russia has joined their ranks. Only their robo-cop has terrorists in its cross-hairs. ...

  • Jennifer Lopez Miley Cyrus Taylor Swift Selena Gomez Nicki Minaj At The Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet

    LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 19: Miley Cyrus arrives at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 19, 2013 in Las Vegas, ...

  • The 201213 Barclays Premier League In Thoughts and Numbers

    won their 20th top flight and their 13th Premier League championship. In the sober light of day this one will go down as testament to the drive of retiring manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his burning desire to knock Manchester City off their expensive but temporary BPL ...


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Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

In his first feature film in eight years (and the first not from a Charlie Kaufman screenplay), Spike Jonze again returns to the thin line between fantasy and reality in adapting Maurice Sendaks beloved 1963 childrens book Where the Wild Things Are. It is n ... ...

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  • Stronger Yuan Makes Life Harder For Chinese Exporters

    Some companies in China are starting to worry about a stronger yuan. For China's currency, the yuan, there is no turning back. This currency is gaining on the dollar each year. The government wants to make it a fully convertible, tradable currency. It's on its way. And along those travels, exporters are getting a taste of their own Chinese medicine: they're getting out-priced by ...

  • Computer visionary says he knows who invented Bitcoin

    baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code and hundreds of posts on Bitcoin, Nakamoto sent a note to a developer in April 2011 saying that he had "moved on to other things." Later ...

  • 6 Questions Everyone Should Ask the IRS

    Outgoing acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Steve Miller testifies before a full House Ways and Means committee hearing on 'Internal Revenue Service Targeting Conservative Groups' on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 17, 2013. US President Barack Obama sacked the acting head of the US Internal Revenue Service on May 15 over a scandal sparked when officials unfairly ...

  • Star Trek Into Darkness Weak $84 Million Domestic Opening Follows Paramount Video Game Flop

    Despite having a decent Metacritic rating of 73, the Star Trek Into Darkness movie failed to build on the domestic success that the original JJ Abrams reboot had established four years ago. The film, which was forecast to break the $100 million barrier over its extended weekend launch, made just $84 million ($2 million Wednesday, $11.5 million Thursday, $22 million Friday, $27.2 million Saturday ...

  • 6 Weeks Key to Deciding Detroits Fate

    Bond restructurings, negotiated settlements with bondholders and bond insurers, and tough talk with unionized workers are on the agenda as Detroit's emergency financial manager tries to meet a self-imposed, six-week deadline to decide whether the city can get through its financial crisis without a bankruptcy filing.Kevyn Orr, a former bankruptcy lawyer, in his first report to the state of ...

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