CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers - Wed. Dec. 17

Apology! Yesterday's Question 2 inadvertently had the incorrect answer. This was commented on by one of the blog readers (thank you!) and the correct answer was then replaced. To ensure this error does not occur again, only the correct answer will be published in future, rather than all 4 options with the correct one highlighted.

Question 1: In Carmen Wong Ulrich's article on what the rate cut means for consumers, what piece of advice does she give? lock in high-interest CDs now

Question 2: According to Bob Pisani's blog, "Goldman Sachs: A Sigh Of Relief On Street" what company did Credit Suisse criticize? Potash

Question 3: What geographic reference appears in the Holiday Central blog post "Airline Baggage Fees Deliver Boost to UPS"? over the river and through the woods

Question 4: In the CNBC Web video, "Kitty Caskets," what species of deceased pet does casket maker Jeanne Hoegh mention? all of the above

Question 5: In the Pros Say feature, "H1 Will be Horrific", which "pro" talked about corporate bonds? Sean Egan

Question 6: In his Tuesday Stock Blog, Jon Najarian said options traders seemed bullish on which aerospace company? Boeing

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CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers - Tue. Dec. 16

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Question 1: What verb phrase does Carmen Wong Ulrich use in her Monday article on Ponzi scheme protection?
go fly a kite
take a hike --> CORRECT ANSWER!
tell greed to get lost
all of the above

Question 2: According to a Dec. 15 CNBC Stock Blog post, what firm is rumored to be wooing AK Steel?
ArcelorMittal
Nucor
Commercial Metals
Sumitomo Metals --> CORRECT ANSWER!

Question 3: CNBC.com video quiz: On Dec. 15, Jim Glickenhaus' energy picks included:
Peabody Energy
Boardwalk Pipeline
Devon Energy
all of the above --> CORRECT ANSWER!

Question 4: In the "Stupid or Cool?" feature on gift ideas, what horror-movie staple is mentioned in the robot lawnmower review?
dripping title letters
slasher music --> CORRECT ANSWER!
chainsaws being started
car won't start

Question 5: In Monday's "Stop Trading" segment, Jim Cramer dealt with Goldman Sachs' downgrade of which company?
Schering-Plough
Bristol-Myers Squibb
AT&T --> CORRECT ANSWER!
none of the above

Question 6: According to the article, "Faith, Doubt, and Warren Buffett," how much did Berkshire Hathaway's Q3 net earnings fall?
77% --> CORRECT ANSWER!
By one-third
55%
$1 billion

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CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers - Fri. Dec. 12

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Question 1: According to the article "YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money," what is Web producer Michael Buckley earning from ads?
$100 per view
$1,000 flat fee
over $100,000 --> correct answer!!
1,000 hours of free broadband

Question 2: In his energy and health stock recommendations, Dan Genter of RNC Genter used what war metaphor?
tiptoeing through the mine field --> correct answer!!
keeping your powder dry
time to lock and load
don't go three on a match

Question 3: On Thursday, John Bogle of The Vanguard Group said who would "pay more than Washington" for capital in troubled banks?
other banks
Warren Buffett
Dubai --> correct answer!!
private investors

Question 4: In Thursday's edition of CEOs Sound Off, "Doing Business In Recession," Jeff Ettinger touts which processed meat product?
Underwood Deviled Ham
Hormel Spam --> correct answer!!
Armour Hot Dogs
Oscar Meyer Wieners

Question 5: According to Darren Rovell's blog on the Kobe Zoom Cut Shoe, how big a business is "fashion basketball"?
$500 million
$2 billion --> correct answer!!
equal to performance basketball
twice that of performance basketball

Question 6: In Thursday's edition of Fast Money Pops & Drops, which trader suggested Sprint Nextel "could be in a race to zero"?
Guy Adami --> correct answer!!
Jeff Macke
Karen Finerman
Drake Maltese

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CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers - Thur. Dec. 11

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Question 1: On Wednesday, Michael Yoshikami told CNBC he was "keeping his eye on" which tech stock?
Advanced Micro Devices
Expedia -->CORRECT ANSWER
Nvidia
Apple

Question 2: As of Wednesday night, what was Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe?
more than 20%
3.3 million shares
18.9%
19.83% -->CORRECT ANSWER

Question 3: In her article, Turn a Pink Slip Into Your Golden Ticket, what is Carmen Wong Ulrich's 1st piece of advice?
file for unemployment -->CORRECT ANSWER
examine your health coverage
take stock in yourself
ask for a recommendation

Question 4: Oppenheimer's Meredith Whitney says the credit-card industry may cut how much in credit lines over the next 18 months?
70 percent
90 percent
$50 billion
$2 trillion -->CORRECT ANSWER

Question 5: In Tuesday's Lightning Round OT segment, Jim Cramer said he likes which stock(s) for "short-term trade only" now?
Green Mountain Coffee -->CORRECT ANSWER
Valley National Bancorp
Applied Industrial Tech
all of the above

Question 6: According to Bob Pisani's blog post, Get Used To The Layoffs, which company is sacking 14,000 globally?
Kodak
Praxair
Rio Tinto -->CORRECT ANSWER
none of the above

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CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers - Monday December 8, 2008

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Question 1: According to Mark Tinker of Axa Framlington Gemini, what do Walmart and McDonalds have in common?
fair companies at great prices
bear-market rally leaders
leaders in a new bull market -->CORRECT!
all of the above

Question 2: On Dec. 5, which analyst likened the slide in oil prices to a "huge tax cut"?
Cambridge Energy's Daniel Yergin
Jefferies' Art Hogan
Alaron's Phil Flynn
Cameron Hanover's Peter Beutel -->CORRECT!

Question 3: In his blog post, Mustard Seeds of Hope, which mega-investor did Larry Kudlow quote?
Boone Pickens
Warren Buffett -->CORRECT!
Wilbur Ross
Carl Icahn

Question 4: How much is real-estate mogul Donald Trump suing Deutsche Bank for?
$130 million
$334 million
$640 million
$3 billion -->CORRECT!

Question 5: On Friday, what "top-down economist" warned of a "terrible situation" without more innovation like Yahoo and Google?
Michael Woolfolk -->CORRECT!
Arthur Laffer
Jeffrey Saut
Dirk Chisholm

Question 6: On Dec. 5, Guest Blogger Tony Crescenzi said which economic approach "should" work for U.S. recovery?
Friedmanesque
Smithian
Lafferesque
Keynesian -->CORRECT!

CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers - Friday December 5, 2008

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Question 1: Who warned CNBC Thursday about the "centipede market"?
Howard Davidowitz
Dave Bahoric --> CORRECT ANSWER
Clem Chambers
Jim Bianco

Question 2: In his Thursday Stock Blog post, Jon Najarian disclosed that he's long on which airline stock?
CAL
DAL
LCC
AMR --> CORRECT ANSWER

Question 3: Jane Wells reported that which footwear company threw a holiday beer party for employees of Adidas?
Etnies --> CORRECT ANSWER
Skechers
Vans
Doc Maarten

Question 4: CNBC Producer David Russell compared Christopher Cox's SEC actions to what classic Monty Python sketch?
Ministry of Silly Walks
The Killer Joke
The Spanish Inquisition --> CORRECT ANSWER (hey! you can see this sketch in the youtube video below!)
I'm a Lumberjack



Question 5 : In Thursday's CEOs Sound Off feature, who slammed "the U.S. government's business model" as "unsustainable"?
Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoRan
Bill Zollars, YRC WorldWide
David Walker, Peter G. Peterson --> CORRECT ANSWER
none of the above

Question 6: In our Harvard Business School CEO slideshow, who praises a "long-term passion for learning"?
Jeffrey Immelt of GE --> CORRECT ANSWER
Meg Whitman of eBay
Ann Moore of Time Inc.
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase

Have a great weekend!

CNBC Bonus Bucks Wednesday December 3

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Question 1: What Hasbro goodie is seen in our Hot Holiday Toys slideshow?
Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker
Bakugan
U-Dance --> CORRECT ANSWER!
Crayola Glow Station

Question 2: What omen will convince strategist Kevin Caron that "the worst will finally be over"?
dollar stays up vs. euro for a week
oil prices stable for a week
interbank spreads improve --> CORRECT ANSWER!
Treasury yields level off

Question 3: What is the "focus" of Cramer's Playing Defense Rules: Part 5?
making money
holding on to what you have --> CORRECT ANSWER!
the bigger picture
rational investing

Question 4: According to our Warren Buffet Watch, how many BUD shares did Berkshire Hathaway hold at the end of March?
35.6 million shares --> CORRECT ANSWER!
13,845,000 shares
$969,150,000 in current dollars
1 billion shares

Question 5: On Friday, why did Fast Money's Jeff Macke say "becoming socialist is good"?
because traders fear uncertainty
he's long Citi and GM --> CORRECT ANSWER!
he approves of collective farming
he's long HMO stocks

Question 6: By Black Friday's close of trading last week, where did financial stocks end?
down 31%
down 0.01%
up 5% (excluding Citigroup)
up 31% --> CORRECT ANSWER!

CNBC Bonus Bucks Weekly - December 1

Weekly CNBC Bonus Bucks Questions: Calls give you the right to?
Buy the stock at the current price
Buy the stock at the strike price --> CORRECT ANSWER (too easy!)
Sell the stock at the current stock price
Sell the stock at the strike price

CNBC Bonus Bucks Monday December 1, 2008

Question 1: CNBC Guest Blogger Tony Crescenzi knows the bond market inside and out. Who is his employer?
Pimco
Miller Tabak + Co. --> CORRECT ANSWER!
Soleil Securities Group
Soleil Moon Frye

Question 2: According to Jim Goldman, what is HP blaming for its Q1 revenue shortfall prediction?
sales slowdown
market softness
currency conditions --> CORRECT ANSWER!
all of the above

Question 3: How many Yahoo shares did billionaire investor Carl Icahn buy last week?
75.6 million shares
6.8 million shares --> CORRECT ANSWER!
all of them
5.5 percent of the company

Question 4: In his blog post, Obama’s Pro-Growth Economic Team, Larry Kudlow refers to which pagan notion?
midnight moon worship
dormant animal spirits --> CORRECT ANSWER!
gods of war
reading tea leaves

Question 5: What day did Berkshire Hathaway shares close below $100K for the 1st time in 2 years?
Monday, Nov 17 --> CORRECT ANSWER!
Friday Nov. 21
Monday Nov. 24
none of the above

Question 6: According to Jane Wells, Saddam Hussein's yacht, the Basra Breeze, was maligned as
typical tyrant schlock
a shrine to bad taste --> CORRECT ANSWER!
surprisingly comfortable
loaded with extras

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Bonus Bucks Answers Friday, November 28

Question: In our Spirits of the Holidays slideshow, how does Gary Vaynerchuk describe Connemara Irish Single Malt?
the Scotch drinker's Irish ---> CORRECT ANSWER!
tad more oak than the Woodford
tastes primarily of oak and caramel
really picks up the peat

Question 2: Which strategist told CNBC on Wednesday that investors ought to start buying into the 2009 recovery surge?
Randall Eley of The Edgar Lomax Co.
Nick Massey of Householder Group
Prof. Bjorn Hanson of the Tisch Center
Allen Sinai of Decision Economics ---> CORRECT ANSWER!

Question 3: At the Financial Follies this year, how much did water cost during the cocktail hour?
$6 ---> CORRECT ANSWER!
$11
free with a dinner voucher
water not available

Question 4: In Daryl Guppy's blog post about "Identifying Capitulation", what World War II metaphor does he use for the market?
Pearl Harbor
D-Day
Stuka dive bomber ---> CORRECT ANSWER!
U-boat wolf pack

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Bonus Bucks Answers Tuesday, November 25

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Question 1: Which strategist told CNBC Monday that Citigroup's common stock "was toast"?

Tobias Levkovich
Jim Hardesty
David Darst
Christopher Whalen --> CORRECT ANSWER

Question 2: According to Jon Najarian's Nov. 24 Stock Blog post, how far is Nucor stock off its summertime high?
down 70% --> CORRECT ANSWER
down $25.25
down 8%
none of the above

Question 3: How long has Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal been a Citigroup shareholder?
since it was First Natl. City Bank
since the Reagan Administration
more than 18 years --> CORRECT ANSWER
more than 21 years

Question 4: According to the feature, Holiday Shopping with Deflated Stocks, what could you buy with a share of Microsoft?
10 lb. Butterball turkey --> CORRECT ANSWER
10-megapixel camera
5 lbs. of yams
Chutes & Ladders game

Question 5: Fast Money's Dylan Ratigan appeared on The View, he used what metaphor to explain vanished credit?
money heaven --> CORRECT ANSWER
credit limbo
financial purgatory
money Narnia

Question 6: Which bank stocks does Peter Sorrentino of Huntington Asset Advisors see in a "huge" 2009 rally?
Citigroup
Bank of America
Wells Fargo --> CORRECT ANSWER
All of the above

Weekly Bonus Bucks Answer

Publicly traded companies release earnings?

Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly --> CORRECT ANSWER!
Yearly

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Bonus Bucks Answers Monday, November 24

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Question 1: When does Mike Duke effectively take the CEO post at Walmart?
Feb. 1, 2009 --> CORRECT ANSWER
Jan. 1, 2009
Jan. 30, 2009
Dec. 31, 2008

Question 2: Which central banker told CNBC Friday that his peers seek a "new world order"?
UAE's Sultan Bin Nasser al-Suwaidi
ECB's Jean-Claude Trichet
Brazil's Henrique De Campos Meirelles --> CORRECT ANSWER
None of the above

Question 3: Which super-investor told the Fast Money team Thursday that the dollar is going to drop "like a stone"?
George Soros
Sam Zell
Peter Schiff --> CORRECT ANSWER
Wilbur Ross

Question 4: What nightmarish phrase did Pimco's Mohammed El-Erian use to warn bank investors?
"the boogeyman"
"shareholder armageddon"
"the unthinkable" --> CORRECT ANSWER
"equity apocalypse"

Question 5: Which strategist told CNBC Friday, "All financials will be owned by the U.S. government in a year"?
Hugh Hendry --> CORRECT ANSWER
Jim Rogers
Peter Schiff
Marc Faber

Question 6: In Allen Wastler's Nov. 20 blog post, who is the first possible Treasury Secretary candidate he names?
Sheila Bair
Paul Volcker
Jon Corzine
Timothy Geithner --> CORRECT ANSWER

Bonus Bucks Answers Friday, November 21

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Question 1: According to Julia Boorstin, how much revenue did China Central TV's primetime ad space auction yield?

nearly $1.4 billion -->CORRECT ANSWER
$35 billion
11% over last year
10% over last year

Question 2: What disaster did Jim Paulsen of Wells Capital Management say "we've created" this week?

socialist hydra
credit crisis, the sequel
S&P death spiral
TARP crisis No. 2 -->CORRECT ANSWER

Question 3: Jim Cramer said HP's Q4 pre-announcement yielded no "pin action." Who did he say could have benefited from that action?

Intel
Cisco
Corning
all of the above -->CORRECT ANSWER

Question 4: Which investor said Thursday that they'd raise their Citigroup stake by 1%?

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Saudi Prince Alwaleed -->CORRECT ANSWER
Warren Buffett
Wilbur Ross

Question 5: Which strategist told CNBC there won't be a bottom 'til Valentine's Day?

Tobias Levkovich of Citigroup
Jeffrey Kleintop of LPL Financial
Bob Doll of BlackRock -->CORRECT ANSWER
David Darst of Morgan Stanley

Question 6: On Thursday, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost 48.1% from its all-time high. Where did it close?

at $77,500 a share -->CORRECT ANSWER
down $8,700 from Wed.
a new 4-year low
all of the above

Have a great weekend!!

Bonus Bucks Answers Thursday, November 20

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Question 1: According to our Big Budget Events slideshow, how much did the Louisiana Purchase cost in today's dollars?
$217 billion -->CORRECT ANSWER!
$7.9 billion
One dollar, as a technicality
$782 million

Question 2: On the day KISS frontman Gene Simmons rang NYSE's opening bell, whose employees rang Nasdaq's bell?
Rambus -->CORRECT ANSWER!
Texas Instruments
SanDisk
Hynix Semiconductor

Question 3: According to Jeffrey Saut of Raymond James, when did the market bottom?
late summer
on the 3rd day of triple-digit loss
Oct. 10 -->CORRECT ANSWER!
it hasn't

Question 4: What did Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell say is the solution to marine pirate attacks?
a holistic approach -->CORRECT ANSWER!
kindness and understanding
all the navies in the world
a lot more weapons

Question 5: In Jim Cramer's Wednesday Lightning Round OT, which stocks did the Mad Money man praise?
DryShips
Sierra Pacific Resources
British Petroleum -->CORRECT ANSWER!
all of the above

Question 6: According to research firm IDC, global info tech spending will grow by how much in 2009?
5.9%
0.9%
4.2%
2.6% --> CORRECT ANSWER

Bonus Bucks Answers Wednesday, November 19

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Question 1: On Nov. 17, which ag stock did Pete Najarian praise for its "phenomenal pipeline"?
Archer Daniels Midland
Monsanto -->CORRECT ANSWER!
Mosaic
All of the above

Question 2: In Tuesday's "CEOs Sound Off", which chief executives gave CNBC their outlooks?
Jim Owens of Caterpillar
Thomas Farrell of Dominion Resources
Sir Martin Sorrell of the WPP Group
All of the above -->CORRECT ANSWER!

Question 3: What does Click Capital Research's Colin Gillis fear about investing in Yahoo?
the wait for a new CEO -->CORRECT ANSWER!
tech sector uncertainty in general
its "moribund" search
layoffs won't be enough

Question 4: On Tuesday, analyst Tina Vital offered CNBC her oil stock picks. Which company is on her 4-star list?
Exxon Mobil
Chevron
Marathon Oil -->CORRECT ANSWER!
All of the above

Question 5: How much of ConocoPhillips did Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hold, as of Sept. 30?
17.5 million shares
84 million shares -->CORRECT ANSWER!
59.7 million shares
none of the above

Question 6: According to Daryl Guppy, what sort of traders use a "pump and dump" strategy?
desperate individuals -->CORRECT ANSWER!
irresponsible scoundrels
slick operators
near suicidal

Bonus Bucks Answers Tuesday, November 18

Come back later in the day for answers to all of today's trivia questions (bonus bucks).

Question 1: According to the Stock Blog post, Options Action: Dangerous Videogame Play, what must happen for the break-even trade?

stock must drop more than 9%
stock must drop more than 8% --> CORRECT ANSWER!!
stock must return to mid-April highs
stock must hold steady

Question 2: In Friday's Stop Trading! segment, Trouble for Coal, Jim Cramer said which energy stock has a "double whammy"?

Peabody
Arch Coal
Exxon
Kinder Morgan --> CORRECT ANSWER!!

Question 3: In the Stock Blog post, Five Stocks to Fight The Recession, how does Manuel Schiffres label Pfizer?

Dull as aspirin
Dirt-cheap
Not going out of business
All of the above --> CORRECT ANSWER!!

Question 4: In Vince Farrell's blog post, Lower Oil Price Equals A Tax Cut, the CIO offers what scientific view of petroleum "info"?

"forensic analysis"
"Litmus test"
"put it under a microscope"
"dissection" --> CORRECT ANSWER!!

Question 5: Enjoy our Holiday Cigars slideshow. Now name the only 2-time winner of Cigar Aficionado's No. 1 Cigar of the Year.

The Padrón Family --> CORRECT ANSWER!!
La Flor Dominicana
Macanudo
The Fuente Family

Question 6: In "Apple Investors' Hope for the Holidays" which "long-time" tech industry analyst does Jim Goldman refer to?

Walt Mossberg
Ashok Kumar
David Pogue
Gene Munster --> CORRECT ANSWER!!

CNBC Bonus Bucks Weekly Question : Week 1

The Dow Jones Industrial Average consist of:

Every stock on the NY Stock Exchange
The Top 500 stocks
All Transportation & manufacturing stock
30 stocks --> CORRECT ANSWER!!

CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge Trivia Answers November 17

Question 1(CNBC Squawk On The Street):
At the start of the Oct. 29 CNBC.com video, Solid Gold Demand, how high is the Dow as displayed onscreen?
8,990.96
19.11
9084.47 --> CORRECT ANSWER!
9325.01

Question 2 (CNBC - The Call):
In the Market Insider post, Stocks That Survived 1929, which Jazz Age stock is not on the list? Addressograph-Multigraph
Raybestos-Manhattan
Corn Products Refining
National Salt --> CORRECT ANSWER!

Question 3 (CNBC - Power Lunch):
In Matt Nesto's Oct. 31 stock blog post, what "No. 1" gainer did he call the "hottest stock on Earth"?
OfficeMax
Office Depot --> CORRECT ANSWER
Staples
None of the above

Question 4 (CNBC - Street Signs):
In the story, Stocks Could Get a Short Post-Election Bounce, who said Obama offered markets a "big positive"?
Art Cashin of UBS
Jordan Kimmel of Magnet Investment
Michael Kresh of M.D. Kresh Financial
Bruce Fenton of Atlantic Financial --> CORRECT ANSWER

Question 5: (CNBC - Closing Bell)
Our slideshow, The Many Sides Of Sarah Palin, depicts her meeting "Vikings and Valkyries" in which ethnic festival?
German
Norwegian --> CORRECT ANSWER
Danish
Inuit

CNBC Bonus Bucks Trivia Answers (July 8)

Question 1 (Squawk Box): In Julia Boorstin's July 7 post about NBC Universal's Weather Channel buy, which of NBC's Web sites does she mention?

CNBC.com
Hulu.com -->CORRECT ANSWER!
NBCnews.com
all of the above

Question 2 (Squawk On The Street): In Fast Money's July 3 post, "Our Favorite Inflation Trades", what was Guy Adami's play?

long Lockheed Martin -->CORRECT ANSWER!
long natgas
short Whole Foods
short Lockheed Martin

Question 3 (The Call): In the feature, "ETFs Provide Cover When Markets Get Crazy," which ETF does John Schloegel recommend?

IYM
PHO
GLD
all of the above -->CORRECT ANSWER!

Question 4 (Power Lunch): Web video hunt: On July 7, Stifel Nicolaus' David Lutz weighed in on financial stocks. He recommended buying:

Mastercard -->CORRECT ANSWER!
Goldman Sachs
Citigroup
none of the above

Question 5 (Street Signs): On Monday, Rebecca Darst said banks were rattled by the options action surrounding which stock(s)?

Wachovia
Zions Bancorp -->CORRECT ANSWER!
KeyCorp
all of the above

Question 6 (Closing Bell): CNBC Stock Blog: On Monday, hospitality analyst Jake Fuller panned which casino stock?

Trump Entertainment Resorts
Ameristar
Las Vegas Sands -->CORRECT ANSWER!
Pinnacle

See bottom of our Monday post for answer to CNBC Portfolio Challenge weekly question.

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