MGM Resorts International has become the first gaming company to sign a sports betting deal with the National Hockey League as it seeks a new source of growth and greater customer exposure.

Four times a year, CEOs and company financial officers field questions about what an editor once told me is the purest form of public disclosure of corporate information because it involves easy-to-compare numbers. And this quarter, there will be far more questions than answers.

Edquity, which describes itself as a “one-stop shop” for college-related finance, was among 100 new financial technology companies chosen by Money20/20 for its USA Startup Academy this week.

Fresh off a profitable third quarter, Boyd Gaming Corp. is primed to enter five markets in four new states and has a new partnership with a prominent sports wagering company in its pocket.

It took only 60 seconds for Dan Morphy to sell an antique slot machine for $80,000 Saturday morning.

If you ever thought about betting on who wins “Survivor” or “Dancing with the Stars” take heart: the door remains open. But producers of the shows apparently don’t want to walk in.

With a string of casinos along the Colorado River some 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Laughlin is popular with retirees who drive in and offers low-priced rooms, buffets and plenty of sunshine and open desert.

The proposed merger of Caesars Entertainment Corp. with Tilman Fertitta’s Landry’s Inc. would boost earnings of the enlarged company through cost-cutting and leveraging loyalty programs, Wall Street analysts said.

A retired executive of Estée Lauder has been appointed to the board of directors of Caesars Entertainment Corp., the company announced in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday.

The Gold Strike hotel-casino in Jean will be rechristened come Nov. 1.

Treasure Island, the last Strip resort without a union agreement, has reached a tentative deal with the Culinary union.

Investigations into Wynn Resorts Ltd. and its founder, Steve Wynn, are nearing completion in both Massachusetts and Nevada, with a growing likelihood that Silver State gaming regulators will finish first.

A major casino operator on Las Vegas Boulevard has launched new facial recognition technology, Alec Massey, a director in PwC’s Connected Solutions practice, said during a Global Gaming Expo panel discussion.

After a phenomenal 2017, casino shares are among the worst performers in 2018. They have nearly given up all of last year’s gains.

Exhibitors on the Global Gaming Expo floor at the Sands Expo & Convention Center Wednesday pitched products to 26,000 attendees as casinos look for ways to turn young people into young gamblers.

The #MeToo movement has companies around the world re-evaluating their sexual harassment policies and procedures, including those in the casino industry.

Sharon Delaney McCloud, an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, delivered the first keynote address at this week’s Global Gaming Expo at the Sands Expo Convention Center and The Venetian. The focus was women representation on corporate boards.

SLS Las Vegas owner Alex Meruelo has kicked off his $100 million upgrade of the 1,600-room resort.

The American Gaming Association’s 18th annual Global Gaming Expo opens Monday at the Sands Expo Convention Center and the Venetian and runs through Thursday.

The off-Strip Lucky Dragon, which opened less than two years ago, has fully shut down and is scheduled to come up for sale at a foreclosure auction Oct. 30. The property is now surrounded by chain-link fencing.

Longtime MGM Resorts International executive Bobby Baldwin, the namesake of the high-stakes poker room at Bellagio, will leave the company later this year, the company announced Thursday.

Johnny Avello was the Wynn Las Vegas sports book director for the past 13 years before leaving the company Monday to join DraftKings, which launched the first mobile sports betting app in New Jersey in August.