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The all-important January employment reports come out this week. Also worth watching for are a host of earnings releases, led by economic bellwhether UPS. The package deliverer is expected to post strong results.

For many years, analysts have run sin indexes. Some had to do with the consumption of liquor, and others with cigarettes. It was always hard to tell if sin was a leading indicator of bad times or good. Some people drink their troubles away during a recession. Others drink champagne when a recession...

Las Vegas Sands (LVS) has gambled big on Macau, and like most high-rollers who stay in the game when the cards turn sour, it is being forced to scramble for cash to stay in the game. After failing to find an angel to buy or take a healthy stake in the Sands' holdings in China, it is now considering...

I wrote recently about the woes of MGM Mirage (MGM), and it comes as no surprise that other companies in the gaming industry are also rolling snake eyes. Las Vegas Sands (LVS) is highly leveraged, with turmoil in the front office, and a tall stack of chips invested in dicey real estate...