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New TV puppet show mocks British politicians, celebrities

Nearly 20 years after iconic TV satire “Spitting Image” ended, a new puppet show hit the airwaves in Britain this week poking fun at politicians at the height of the election campaign. “Newzoids”, a weekly half-hour sketch show on the ITV channel, ridicules everyone from the royal family to tennis star Andy Murray but the first episode centred on politics. In a joke about his upper-class background, Prime Minister David

Friday, April 17: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Gold rallied a bit in early Far East trading, but then got sold back down to the $1,200 spot mark just before 1 p.m. Hong Kong time.  From there it rallied to its noon high tick in London—and “da boyz” showed up at the London p.m. fix.  The subsequent rally that began thirty minutes later got capped shortly after 2 p.m. EDT in electronic trading—and despite

Calloway to acquire SmartCentres in C$1.16 billion deal

Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust said on Thursday it is acquiring the SmartCentres platform from Mitchell Goldhar as part of a C$1.16 billion ($952 million) deal that will make Calloway a fully integrated real estate developer and operator. On closing of the proposed deal, Toronto-based Calloway said, it intends to change its name to SmartREIT to reflect its enhanced capabilities. Goldhar, who himself owns a sizable stake in Calloway and