Investors demand more from Macau

Macau’s gaming revenue rose 9.3 percent year-on-year in May to more than $4 billion, the fifth highest monthly total ever. That news sparked a brutal selloff in Macau casino shares, as investors expected even better numbers. Some analysts insist sellers are missing Macau’s big picture.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.