Marriott International

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If last week was all about jobs, this week is all about prices. Considering how much people worry about inflation these days, two key reports should give us a much better idea whether it’s actually a fact on the ground.  Wednesday brings the April consumer price index (CPI), which rose a...

January isn’t usually a month where you see retail sales go through the roof, but these days investors are learning to expect the unexpected. A 5.3% climb in retail sales last month blew analysts’ 1% average estimate out of the water and offered evidence that maybe the latest stimulus...

With earnings taking a slight breather, focus this week could turn more toward geopolitical and virus headlines. That means the relative lack of volatility we’ve enjoyed lately has a chance of fading away even more quickly than the weekend just did.  There are a lot of...

On Monday, shares of Marriott International Inc (NASDAQ: MAR) fell as first-quarter earnings missed expectations. Like its peers, the hotel-chain operator is bearing the weight of the pandemic that put the world under lockdown. Despite, revenue per room, as well as bookings, plunging...

Shares of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (NYSE: HOT) were trading lower by more than 4.7 percent following a major development in the bidding war between Anbag Insurance Group and Marriott International Inc (NASDAQ: MAR). Shares of Marriott were also trading lower by more than 5.5...

This weekend in Barron's online: the case for splitting up PepsiCo, Barron's annual ranking of the top independent advisors, as well as the prospects for Hasbro, TransCanada, Bunge and more. Cover Story "Time for PepsiCo to Split Up?" by Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal. For years...

U.S. stocks were mostly positive on the first trading session of June in which investors were left confused over ISM's May Manufacturing data which was revised twice. Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices reached new highs. The S&P 500 index reached a new all time high of 1,925.88...

The earnings crunch continues this week. Among the highlights will be scheduled quarterly reports from Exxon Mobil and Chevron, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, from Time Warner and Viacom, and also from Twitter. Early Thursday, Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is expected to say that it had earnings...

U.S. stocks were slightly lower as positive labor market data clashed with fourth quarter GDP estimates that showed the economic expanded less than economists had expected. Major indices finished slightly lower as the Nasdaq index continues to see its losses fall sharper compared to the Dow and...

The earnings season is winding down, but on the docket this week are Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM), Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) and others. Later in the week, the parade of quarterly reports from big retailers kicks off with...

The earnings crunch rolls on. This week's highlights include quarterly reports from the two biggest companies by market capitalization, Apple and Exxon Mobil, which are expect to post declining earnings. Per-share earnings from General Motors are expected to be the same as a year ago, and...

New research from Oppenheimer suggests that many leisure stocks may be overpriced now. The analysts suggest that investors may want to sell the following four restaurant stocks now in order to rotate into more profitable sectors, such as energy or materials. Below we take a look at how Darden...