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Investors seeking trades that could benefit from a vaccine rollout should look no further, two traders say.

Maryland state records show at least 133 casino employees have tested positive for COVID-19, including dozens since the beginning of October, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team. The six casinos, which employ more than 7,000 workers, were shuttered between March and June due to the initial COVID-19 outbreak.  Though casinos have installed new plexiglass partitions, sanitizing stations and…

Maryland casinos continue to take in hundreds of millions a month since they reopened with new safety precautions in place, but some worry we might not have a true picture of the gamble some are taking. Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team report on concerns that details about the coronavirus are being kept in the dark.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index has the potential to reach the 40,000-point mark in 2021, according to Baird’s Patrick Spencer.

The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from a coronavirus outbreak that cost states more than $2 billion in lost tax revenue while casinos were shut down for four months this year.

“What would Jesus do? He would definitely vote no on the casino referendum,” reads one of the billboards.

Drivers heading down state roads leading to Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut are greeted by flashing warnings: “Avoid Large Crowds” and “Don’t Gamble With COVID.” Despite having authority to shutter thousands of businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has been constrained when dealing with the sovereign tribal nations that own two of the...

MGM is preparing to reopen its casinos in Las Vegas and the National Harbor. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports gambling is going to look a lot different.

Maryland has missed out on roughly $60 million in state revenue from the state’s casinos being closed last month due to the coronavirus when compared to how much the state generated last April

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has issued an emergency order to close all Maryland casinos, racetracks, and simulcast betting facilities to the general public indefinitely, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “This situation continues to evolve and will escalate rapidly and dramatically,” said Governor Hogan. “These are unprecedented actions in an extraordinary situation, but they could be the difference…

One man has been charged and two others are still sought after police say they attacked and robbed two men who won $42,000 at the MGM National Harbor casino. Javontae Renard Smallwood, 27, of Southeast D.C., was charged Monday with armed robbery and aggravated malicious wounding. He already was in jail in Fairfax County on unrelated charges. Prince William County…

Armed suspects followed two men who won a total of $42,000 at MGM National Harbor all the way to Woodbridge, Virginia, where they robbed and beat them, documents say. One victim was shot in his left arm. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.