Macau revenue falls again, no recovery this year

For the third straight month, Macau casino revenue fell in August, local casinos’ worst performance since the dark times of 2008-09. Analysts don’t expect recovery before 2015 for the world’s biggest gaming destination.

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.