Starwood Hotels

Hospitality giants are showing increased interest in the luxury vacation rental sector. It is no mystery that AirBnB and Accor SA are growing at an astonishing pace. That's because both companies are constantly on the lookout for expansion opportunities. Recently, the luxury vacation rental...

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...

Shares of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (NYSE: HOT) were trading higher by more than 2 percent after Monday's market open, as the company updated its investors over an ongoing bidding war. On March 26, Starwood received a non-binding proposal from a consortium of investors, including...

Short interest in a number of stocks surged in the most recent settlement period. A pharmacy benefit management company and a big-box retailer led that trend in late February. Shares of both of them rose in the period as the markets found their footing. As the markets seem to find their footing...

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (NYSE: HOT) announced on Tuesday it plans to "significantly" expand its portfolio of Specialty Select brands in New York State over the next three years – the bulk of which will take place in the New York City region. Starwood Hotels noted that it...

U.S. stocks were little changed the day after investors and traders were reassured by the Federal Reserve that interest rates will not rise in the near-term. The U.S. government reported that fewer Americans filed claims for jobless benefits in the previous week, partly helping the S&P 500...

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...

Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer. Week-long vacations are done, weekend trips to the lake are winding down, and for sports fanatics, here comes football season. But there’s a lot of science behind Labor Day. Consumers spend in very predictable ways making this weekend a key revenue...

First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...

What is CNBC’s Jim Cramer watching this week? According to Cramer, key earnings announcements, economic data, and more stress tests results will make this week packed full of marking moving events. Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) reported EPS of $1.03, versus analyst expectations of $1.06...

The S&P ended last week above 1,500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 14,000. Some strong earnings reports could push the markets higher, and there are plenty of quarterly reports on the schedule this week. Analysts by and large expect to see year-over-year earnings per share (EPS)...