Cage, Buscemi, Morgan enlist in "G-Force" (Reuters)

Actor Nicolas Cage speaks during a news conference for his new movie 'Ghost Rider' in Tokyo February 21, 2007. (Michael Caronna/Reuters)Reuters - Nicolas Cage, Steve
Buscemi and Tracy Morgan will provide three of the lead voices
in “G-Force” for Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer
Films.

Mary-Kate Olsen hospitalized for kidney infection (Reuters)

U.S. actress Mary-Kate Olsen poses at the 'Calvin Klein' party in London, October 15, 2007. (Anthony Harvey/Reuters)Reuters - Mary-Kate Olsen, one-half of the
acting Olsen twins who gained fame on 1990s television show
“Full House,” has been hospitalized in New York City for a
kidney infection, her representative said on Tuesday.

Julia Roberts designs a first in Armani bracelet (Reuters)

Julia Roberts smiles on stage before presenting actor Denzel Washington with the 2007 Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at the 16th annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia awards in Los Angeles November 1, 2007. Roberts has designed a bracelet for Giorgio Armani to sell for World AIDS Day, the fashion house said on Tuesday. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)Reuters - “Pretty Woman” star Julia Roberts has
designed a bracelet for Giorgio Armani to sell for World AIDS
Day, the fashion house said on Tuesday.

"Enchanted" box office in store for Thanksgiving (Reuters)

Actress Amy Adams, star of the film 'Enchanted', poses at the film's premiere in Hollywood, California November 17, 2007. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Disney tends to own the
long Thanksgiving box-office weekend, and this year should be
no different.

We tv parties with "Mamas" (Reuters)

Reuters - WE tv has acquired
“Party Mamas,” a half-hour unscripted series about
perfectionist, over-demanding moms who become obsessed with
planning outrageous parties for their children.

Paulson says home loan defaults to rise in 2008: report (Reuters)

United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson addresses delegates attending the Corporate Council on Africa at the U.S.-Africa Summit meeting in Cape Town, November 16, 2007. Paulson said the number of potential U.S. home-loan defaults 'will be significantly bigger' in 2008 than in 2007, the Wall Street Journal's online edition reported. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said the number of potential U.S. home-loan defaults “will be
significantly bigger” in 2008 than in 2007, the Wall Street
Journal’s online edition reported.


Fed cool on long-term growth forecast (FT.com)

FT.com - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday revealed it no longer believed the US economy can grow much more than 2.5 per cent a year without causing rising inflation, a lower rate than many investors thought was sustainable.

Single-family construction falls (AP)

A worker walks through the framework of a new house in Little Rock, Ark. in this Oct. 17, 2007 file photo.  The Commerce Department on Tuesday, Nov. 20 reported that housing construction rose by 3 percent in October, the first increase after three months of declines and the biggest advance since a 6 percent rise last February.  (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, file)AP - Construction of single-family homes in October skidded to the lowest level in 16 years although the slide was cushioned somewhat by a rebound in apartment building.


Fed predicts slower growth, more jobless (AP)

AP - The housing collapse and credit crisis will slow economic growth and nudge up unemployment next year, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind forecast that some economists believe will lead to interest rate cuts early in 2008.

View from the Top: John Snow transcript (FT.com)

FT.com - Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times US managing editor, interviewed Eli Broad of the Broad Foundation, in this segment discussing Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), the US economy and the art market. This is a transcript of the interview, which you may watch here.

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