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Casinos & Hotels
JW Marriott Opens Its Largest Hotel in North America
JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts announced on Friday the opening of its largest North American property, the JW Marriott Austin.
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Special Report
America’s Best Run Companies
The stocks of many public companies have soared in the past year, even with a larger number of them posting only mediocre financial results. The overall market improvement has been that strong. However,…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Allstate, Hecla, Hertz, MGIC, Nokia, Office Depot, P&G and More
Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Allstate, Hecla Mining, Hertz, MGIC, Nokia, Office Depot and Procter & Gamble.
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Investing
UBS Adds 4 Top Stocks to Buy to the Equity Focus List
The UBS wealth management research team has made some additions to and deletions from the UBS Equity Focus List.
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Technology
Do CEOs Use Social Media?
Some pretty high-profile CEOs have jumped on the social media train, but most are only occasional users.
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Special Report
Customer Service Hall of Fame
Wikimedia CommonsWhich companies do Americans enjoy dealing with the most? Truth is, many of the names that top this annual list of best companies for customer service will not surprise you —…
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Special Report
Ten Companies With the Least Valuable Workers
courtesy of StarbucksRevenue per employee is one measure of a company’s productivity. Some companies generate significant revenue per employee that runs into the millions of dollars. Others generate only a fraction of…
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Special Report
Nine Companies With the Most Unusual Origins
Wikimedia CommonsSome of America’s most well-known companies went through big changes before becoming the dominant corporations they are today. The origin of one of today’s most famous beauty products company is door-to-door book distribution.…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Container Store, HP, Verizon, 3D Systems and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms for Monday, February 24, 2014. They include Container Store, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon and 3D Systems.
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcoa, Apple, Gap, GE, 3D Systems and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday January 21, 2014.
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Casinos & Hotels
Oppenheimer Says Sell These Restaurant, Hotel and Gaming Stocks
ThinkstockFor the past year and a half, top hotel, restaurant and leisure stocks have surged on investor interest and very positive sentiment from Wall Street analysts. In a research report out today, the…
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Investing
Another Banner Year for Online Travel
Total U.S. online travel-related spending came to about $103 billion in 2012 according to the latest data from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR). Air travel alone accounted for about two-thirds of all travel…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 2, 2013: Markets Up on Fiscal Deal (ADM, MAR, WAG, ROST, TGT, FDO, ZIP, CAR, FB, BIOF)
U.S. equity markets opened sharply higher this morning following approval last night from the U.S. House of Representatives of a bill that preserves some tax cuts, eliminates others, and basically kicks the…
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Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ATVI, CELG, COST, EA, ECPG, HST, LEAP, MAR, PCS, PAL, SI, SPLS, TTWO, TCBI, TXN, ZNGA)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) started as Outperform with $16…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 4, 2012: Markets Hold onto Morning Gains (PCS, S, TWX, EBAY, ADTN, MAR, ISCA, STZ, AA, VRNG, GOOG, JKS, NUVA, GNK)
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning, reaching a peak after the first half-hour of trading following an inline report on new jobless claims (more coverage here) and no…