Deals Rumor Mill: Starwood, UnitedHealth, DuPont

By Benjamin Horney (October 28, 2015, 7:44 PM EDT) -- Hyatt Hotels Corp. is the latest company to have opened up discussions about a potential purchase of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., according to a Wednesday report from Dow Jones. The report, which featured few other details, said that a deal between the two could be announced within the next two weeks. Starwood has been getting plenty of attention lately, with reports this week pegging three different Chinese companies as interested suitors and previous reports saying InterContinental Hotels Group PLC hopes to be the buyer. Starwood, which has a market capitalization of about $13.8 billion, sold its vacation timeshare business on Wednesday in a deal valued at about $1.5 billion as part of a push to shed $3 billion of hotel properties by the end of 2016....

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