MOP 6.00 Closing editor: Sara Farr
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www.macaubusinessdaily.com
Year III
Number 554 Thursday June 5, 2014
Publisher: Paulo A. Azevedo
Roll out the red carpet
M
ainland Chinese visitors to Macau will increase 20 percent in the next five years. That’s a million a year. Business Monitor International estimates that more than 22 million mainlanders will visit the territory in 2018. The already huge market of 88.1 million mainland tourists travelling the world will balloon to 122.5 million that same year
ETG market to increase 60pct
Give me the money
There are around 5,500 electronic table games in service throughout Macau casinos. This figure is set to increase by 60 percent to 9,000 as the segment grows with the influx of new casino openings on Cotai
Loans granted in April totalled 292.1 billion patacas. Representing a 2.9 percent increase over that of the previous month, some 62.9 percent were Hong Kong dollar-denominated
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Hengqin rescinds registered capital restrictions for Macau investors Page 2
Okada faces another criminal complaint
Studio City sizzling
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The budget for Studio City has increased 15 percent to US$2.3 billion from US$2 billion. The cinematically-themed resort project – with retail and gaming - is slated to open mid-2015
HSI - Movers June 4
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Remembering Tiananmen
%Day
Cathay Pacific Airwa
1.26
BOC Hong Kong Holdi
0.85
Want Want China Ho
0.75
Power Assets Holdin
0.67
Swire Pacific Ltd
0.58
Galaxy Entertainme
-2.00
China Overseas Land
-2.22
China Resources Lan
-2.29
Tencent Holdings Ltd
-2.50
Henderson Land Dev
-2.81
Source: Bloomberg
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