Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT) tapped into yesterday’s Super Bowl LIX broadcast to debut its “Own the Dream” integrated marketing campaign. The Detroit-headquartered company premiered the campaign with a 60-second commercial during the game’s second quarter. Using the...
Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) is acquiring all outstanding shares of Playa Hotels & Resorts NV (NASDAQ: PLYA) for $13.50 per share, or approximately $2.6 billion, including approximately $900 million of debt, net of cash. Playa is the owner and operator of...
Canada’s federal government and the provincial government of Quebec announced the construction of Le Philippe Phase 2, a 205-affordable housing complex which will provide a home for low- and moderate-income households in the City of Quebec. The complex will be built...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has another new leader with the appointment of Russell Vought, the newly sworn-in director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), taking over the agency as acting director. The Wall Street Journal,...
Staff members from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and will receive read-only access to the agency’s computer systems – while Musk left a message on X suggesting the agency was dead....
New leadership at federal agencies, a possible cause for some of the Los Angeles wildfires, and new HGTV shows that don’t seem very new. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Feb. 3-7. Hit: The Right Man for the...
