The Las Vegas Sands casino empire is shifting its revenue base to Macau because the gambling region dominated Las Vegas income by about four to one.

While Las Vegas slowly tries to start recovery from the recession, Macau has already began to soar again. The expansion of gambling revenues within the Chinese gaming province offset poor number in Las Vegas for Las Vegas Sands, allowing the corporate to equal analyst predictions on fourth-quarter earnings.

Profits adjusted for one-time items came to 3 cents a share, the volume most gaming experts had foreseen for the corporate. Macau was accountable for a whopping 80 percent of revenue within the quarter.

“Gaming volumes at Venetian Macau showed a healthy increase,” wrote Deutsche Bank analyst Karen Tang. The financial advisor noted that Sands must be the most important" beneficiary of sturdy Chinese New Year visitor inflows into Macau," creating further promise for leads to the present quarter.

Sands needed the excellent news from the Orient because it is especially hard-hit in Las Vegas. The Venetian and its companion casino are designed to draw convention business and big groups, probably the most damaged aspect of Vegas tourism.

Las Vegas Sands stock rose dramatically at the news, but then quickly declined after the market as an entire dropped at the announcement by the Federal Reserve that it had raised the bargain rate, an indication of credit tightening within the future.

Published on February 19, 2010 by VirginiaMaddox

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