Alex Ossola

The World Cup kicks off this week across 16 North American cities.

But U.S.

hotels are already in last place.

Real estate research firm CoStar has data showing that hotels in Vancouver and Guadalajara are the most booked, with occupancy rates of 48 percent.

Toronto, Mexico City and Monterey, which is in northeastern Mexico, are also more than 40 percent booked.

San Francisco is the only U.S.

city to crack that threshold.

Kate King covers real estate for the journal, and she says price has everything to do with it.

Kate says the businesses and cities that had been hoping for a big economic boost from the World Cup may end up seeing something a little more modest.

Unwritten rules govern all kinds of offices, but there's nowhere they carry more weight than on Wall Street.

Bankers have to thread the needle between looking the part and not standing out.

And most of them only learn where the line is when they step over it.

WSJ careers reporter Ray Smith spoke to former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and a bunch of other current and former bankers about Wall Street style.

And that's what's news for this Monday afternoon.

Today's show is produced by Danny Lewis with supervising producer Tali Arbell.

I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.

We'll be back with a new show tomorrow morning.

Thanks for listening.

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