Record Low Hotel Rates Make Vegas the Most Popular U.S. Travel Destination in 2009 With average hotel rates even lower that they were in 2008, it's no surprise that Las Vegas continues to reign as the top U.S. destination. Looking more closely at average hotel rates, travelers found better hotel...

Record Low Hotel Rates Make Vegas the Most Popular U.S. Travel Destination in 2009 With average hotel rates even lower that they were in 2008, it's no surprise that Las Vegas continues to reign as the top U.S. destination. Looking more closely at average hotel rates, travelers found better hotel...

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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has upgraded Priceline.com’s (PCLN) rating from BB- to BB. S&P analyst Andy Liu stated that the revision was based on the company’s strong results and market share gains versus the other major online travel companies, Expedia Inc. (EXPE) and Orbitz Worldwide (OWW). Both Priceline and Expedia beat the Zacks Consensus estimate [...]

(PCLN) Standard & Poor’s Upgrades Priceline’s Credit Rating

We are downgrading shares of Expedia Inc. (EXPE) from Outperform to Neutral. The company reported strong results in the last quarter, but continued to benefit from promotional inventories provided by its hotel partners. When results are stripped off the benefits of promotional activities, a softer demand environment could become evident. We also do not expect the company [...]

(EXPE) Expedia Inc Downgraded to Neutral

I trimmed my shorts from yesterday, but am still short the RUT, have some FAZ calls, and some FAZ stock. It looks like if this market is going to move down it needs to do it next week. The market has many divergences going on particularly the weakness in financials, however, divergences are not guarantees. As far [...]

BloggingStocks: Priceline.com Inc. (PCLN), which was recently added to the S&P 500, is scheduled to discuss its third-quarter 2009 financial results in a conference call Monday, November 9, at 4:30 PM ET. You can catch the live webcast of the call on the company's ... Read more

We are initiating coverage of Expedia, Inc (EXPE) with an Outperform rating. The stock has had a great run since the beginning of the year, with the share price increasing nearly 149%. Most of the increase has come on the heels of the company reporting better than expected results in the March ...

FEAR has gripped markets, Barry Ritholz and Howard Silverblatt discuss the markets with Andrew as it dives 280 that day. We look at some of the problem sectors and others that may be beneficial. Is the discipline of Fundamental Analysis under attack? Has the street ignored all of the data right in front of their greedy-noses? WE HEAR THAT SOME HAVE BANNED CNBC IN THE OFFICE.... The PRESS is very slanted (bullish) these days...Investments in infrastructure may come into focus due to the recent bridge disaster. Some stocks to take a look at.

This week Mr Gaskins got busy with 10 new issues to cover. As usual, he provides his analysis as well as proprietary grade and rank. For more details on the analysis please visit the website http://www.gaskinsco.com/

This the following companies are covered:

Airvana (AIRV) an infrastructure company in the mobile broadband sector: Grade B-, Rank 9 Dice Holdings (DHX) the long popular technology and finance career website: B-, 8 Encore Banc (EBTX) a bank holding company out of Texas & Florida: C+, 7 hhgregg (HGG) an online retailer of video/audio/appliances/etc: C+, 7

ImaRX Thera (IMRX) who produces therapies for blood clots: C, 6 Limco-Piedmont (LIMC) providing services in aerospace maintenance: C+, 6 MF Global Ltd. (MF) a broker of exchange-listed futures and options: C+, 8 Netezza (NZ) manufacturer of data warehouse appliances: B-, 8
Orbitz Worldwide (OWW) a leading online travel search service: C+, 7 SemGroup , L.P. (SGLP) operating in crude oil midstream services: C+, 7