Jonathan Gordon http://blogs.reuters.com/jonathan-gordon Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:56:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Macau beats the street; weak hand for months ahead http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-right-now/2012/08/01/macau-beats-the-street-weak-hand-for-months-ahead/ http://blogs.reuters.com/jonathan-gordon/2012/08/01/macau-beats-the-street-weak-hand-for-months-ahead/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:56:32 +0000 Jonathan Gordon http://blogs.reuters.com/jonathan-gordon/2012/08/01/macau-beats-the-street-weak-hand-for-months-ahead/ July gambling revenue in Macau beat market expectations, but growth there ain’t what it used to be.  Reuters gaming correspondent Farah Master, who spends more time in the island’s biggest casinos than she’d like to admit,  tells us what to watch for  next.

 

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/jonathan-gordon/2012/08/01/macau-beats-the-street-weak-hand-for-months-ahead/feed/ 0 China’s iPad release: no calamity, no crowds http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-right-now/2012/07/20/chinas-ipad-release-no-calamity-no-crowds/ http://blogs.reuters.com/jonathan-gordon/2012/07/20/chinas-ipad-release-no-calamity-no-crowds/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:16:27 +0000 Jonathan Gordon http://blogs.reuters.com/jonathan-gordon/2012/07/20/chinas-ipad-release-no-calamity-no-crowds/ Apple is at last selling its new iPad in China.  But the lines aren’t what they used to be – with many instead reserving their iPads online. And frankly, a lot of mainland buyers have already got one in hand, smuggled in from Hong Kong.  Melanie Lee reports in Shanghai.

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