Portuguese state financial group Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) plans, from a base in Macau where it has a significant presence through the Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU), plans to function as a business facilitator between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries, the group’s “Chief China Officer”, Alberto Soares, told Macauhub. Taking into account the role already […]
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Wynn Macau’s net revenues dropped 13.8 per cent year-on-year to US$608.2 million in the first quarter, Wynn Resorts said in a statement in Las Vegas last week. Adjusted property Ebitda decreased 9.9 per cent year-on-year to US$191 million. According to the statement, table game turnover in the VIP segment amounted to US$13.47 billion, a 21.4 […]
Investment and trade promotion agencies from São Paulo in Brazil and Macau may sign an agreement to intensify the exchange of business missions, ensuring enhanced monitoring on the ground, according to a report from Portuguese-language newspaper Tribuna de Macau. The proposal was presented by the Paulista Agency for Promotion of Investments and Competitiveness (Invests São […]
MGM China’s total revenue dropped 25 per cent year-on-year to HK$3.6 billion in the first quarter, narrowed from the 31 per cent year-on-year decline in the previous quarter, the gaming operator said in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement, adjusted EBITDA fell 23 per cent to HK$995 million. The company’s “business in the quarter was negatively […]
Australian mogul James Packer’s Crown Resorts has reduced its stake in Melco Crown Entertainment (MCE) from 34.3 per cent to 27.4 per cent for HK$6.2 billion, Hong Kong-based Melco International Development (Melco) announced Wednesday night. According to the deal, MCE has agreed to repurchase 155 million shares from a Crown Resorts subsidiary called Crown Asia […]
Macau’s trade deficit in the first quarter of 2016 reached 14.602 billion patacas (US$1.825 billion), a year on year improvement of 25.3 per cent, reported the Statistics and Census Bureau. According to the Bureau, the trade deficit in the first quarter of 2015 totalled 19.5516 billion patacas. In the first three months of 2016, Macau […]
SJM Holdings’s profit attributable to the company’s owners fell by 44.1 per cent year-on-year to HK$561 million in the first quarter, the gaming operator said in a statement on Tuesday. The company’s gaming revenue decreased by 22.8 per cent to HK$11.02 billion, while adjusted EBITDA dropped by 32.5 per cent to HK$838 million. According to the statement, […]
Macau’s April casino revenue dropped less than analysts estimated in a sign of stabilization as casinos shift their focus to attracting mass gamblers and tourists. Macau´s gross gaming revenue in April decreased 9.5 percent to 17.3 billion patacas (US$ 2.2 billion), according to data from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, marking 23 months of […]
SJM Managing Director Angela Leong On Kei and Wynn Macau Executive Director Linda Chen said that they believe that Macau’s six gaming operators’ revenue from non-gaming business will exceed nine per cent of their total income by 2020, 2.4 percentage points up from 2014. The government laid down the goal for the city’s gaming operators […]