On a day when Caesars Entertainment executives enjoyed a celebratory ringing of the opening Nasdaq bell, company leaders began detailing growth plans for investors, most of those plans relating directly to Las Vegas.
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Caesars Entertainment’s top executive said his company is seeing a slight downturn in casino play from Asian guests as a result of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting.
Operator of PT’s Pub chain is paying $781 million in cash and 4 million shares of stock to New York-based Whitehall Street Real Estate Partners.
MGM Resorts International had planned to roll out its GameSense responsible gaming program during the week of G2E, which brought an estimated 27,000 people to the city.
Among the findings of the Gaming Gender Equality Index: None of the corporations have a woman CEO, chairwoman or president. At only three corporations did women hold one-third or more seats on executive boards.
MGM Resorts International will continue to use a modified advertising campaign with a #VegasStrong hashtag despite social media criticism that it is exploiting the Oct. 1 shootings.
Mandalay Bay Convention Center has apparently increased security in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting.
Comfortable with the leadership Golden Entertainment Chairman and CEO Blake Sartini brings to his company, the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday unanimously approved Golden’s $850 million acquisition of American Casino Entertainment Properties and its Stratosphere property.
A return to normalcy for Las Vegas tourism may still be weeks away, but there should be no long-term effects on tourism to Southern Nevada because of the Oct. 1 shootings.
Eight Las Vegas Valley residents have made the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans released Tuesday.
Authorities in the Chinese territory of Macau have ramped up security measures following the deadly Las Vegas shooting this month and unveiled plans for a series of mock attacks and crisis training to safeguard the world’s largest gambling hub.
The Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute on Tuesday is unveiling a report, authored by Michelle Minton, that describes the significance of New Jersey’s case challenging a federal sports gambling ban known as PASPA — the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act.
Lawyers for a poker player who exchanged $3 million in a high stakes game at Aria said Monday that they’re still going after the money that wasn’t returned despite a ruling that the transaction amounted to an unenforceable gambling debt.
Las Vegas-based W.A. Richardson Builders has been named the construction manager of the Resorts World Las Vegas project, which also announced that it has awarded more than $400 million in contracts.
New Year’s Eve may still be more than two months away, but hotels have in large part finished their planning.
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