Macau casino revenue drops 8.6% in August
Monday 02 de September 2019 / 11:32
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(Macau).- Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau dropped 8.6% in August on the year, hit by tapering demand from high rollers, due to slowing economic growth amid China’s trade war with the United States and protests in neighboring Hong Kong.
August’ s figure was 24.3 billion panaceas ($3.01 billion), Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination said in data posted on Sunday, below analysts’ expectations of a drop of 2%-6%.
The figure was slightly lower than July’s monthly revenue of 24.4 billion panaceas.
While protests in the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong have disrupted transport and deterred travel to the former British colony and then on to Macau, analysts say the impact on gaming revenues has been minimal.
However, the protests have added to the impact of factors such as a typhoon earlier in the month that hit China’s coastal cities and tightening liquidity in the high-roller VI sector.
Macau’s biggest junket operator, Sun city, which operates VI gambling rooms around Asia, was singled out by state media in July as raking in billions of dollars in online gaming and proxy betting, “causing great harm to China’s social economic order”.
“The negativity surrounding Sun city continues to pressure junket VI, as some agents withdraw some funds and some VI players delay visiting Macau,” said Vital Umansky, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in Hong Kong.
Categoría:Gaming
Tags: Sin tags
País: Macao
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