A few days back we reported that online bingo had been experiencing growth far in advance of current industry trends. The other major online casino game that has been bucking the trend is blackjack. While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact combination of reasons for this, it is interesting that the two games that [...]

The Republic of Ireland had been one of the great economic success stories of the last few years but it has been hit even harder than most by the global economic downturn. The openness of the economy coupled with a huge property bubble and subsequent property price crash has left the Irish economy in an [...]

The global economic downturn has created all sorts of new situations that would’ve previously been unthinkable. Virtually all of the major international financial systems have been changed beyond recognition and there is no way that anybody could have foreseen the circumstances that have now become the new financial reality. When the crisis originally hit it [...]

Friday August 28th 2009 saw a lift in the share price of Cryptologic. The day saw an unusually low volume of trading with the volume of shares trades at day’s end finishing at 24,455 but with an overall rise in share price nonetheless. Also, it is worth noting that the real world volume for the [...]

Partygaming lost some ground on Thursday August 27th 2009. When looking at the averages, there was a higher than normal level of activity on the shares but unfortunately for the company there was a lack of confidence from investors as the real world volume at the close of business was 824,193 At the opening of [...]

The share price of 888 Holdings PLC increased on Wednesday August 26th 2009. This follows a trend that we have been seeing in the shares since the start of the week. The real volume of trades for the full day was 1.15 M which is broadly in line with the kind of level of interest [...]

The global recession and more pertinently the reporting of it may have given some people the impression that everything has just gone down and at a pretty uniform rate. While overall trends during a recession will obviously not be uniform and there are also situations that emerge where opportunities arise as well. The online casino [...]

Analysts in any particular sector always like to see a nice positive start to the week and the online casino sector of the market certainly did not disappoint this week. Average numbers from the whole sector were very positive throughout the day and also finished very well. Let’s take a quick look at some numbers [...]

We have been hearing quite a bit about the global economic downturn recently. When the recession originally took the global economy by storm, it was thought that the possibility of a removal of the online gambling ban would have to be put on the back burner. Barney Frank has been the main advocate of introducing [...]