CityCenter -- is getting ready to open its first phase in just a few weeks. A big concern is whether it will mark another successful expansion of the Las Vegas Strip or merely dump lots of new capacity onto a city where hotels have been begging for guests in the economic downturn.

Almost nothing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarkable rise to wealth was conventional. There were no silver spoons no Ivy League degrees no friends in high places.Instead Adelson became one of the richest people in the United States the old-fashioned way: Try a bunch of different things and see what sticks. Adelson 76 is chairman and chief executive of Las Vegas Sands (LVS) the casino resort colossus he founded in 1988. His net worth as estimated by Forbes is $9 billion -- a long way from his humble beginnings.The media-shy billionaire grew up in tenement housing in Dorchester Massachusetts. Adelson’s father ...

The hard data points are at best mixed, but as the casino industry gathers for its annual Global Gaming Expo here this week, operators are seeing glimmerings of hope that the worst -- at least for this downturn -- may finally be over for suffering Sin City.

Las Vegas Sands confirms it plans to use funding from its Hong Kong initial public offering and an additional loan to restart construction on its shelved hotel and casino complex in Macau.

Weather permitting I’ve got three soccer games a birthday party and a pile of leaves in my backyard the size of small Volkswagon awaiting me this weekend.Asian stocks ended mixed. The Hang Seng was up 0.7% but the Nikkei finished down 0.35%. European stocks however were up in early trading. And here in the US we’re currently trading higher.Here’s what I’m focused on besides the closing bell the impending weekend and the large pepperoni pizza my wife assures me will be on the table when I get home:Disney (DIS): Mickey Mouse & Co. were out with the company’s fourth-quarter ...

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