Midweek Numbers Not All That Encouraging

By: Angela Burrows Rouletters Gambling News

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 8:05 pm EST/EDT

The midweek point shows us that it has been a fairly mixed week for online casino related stocks so far this week. The share price of William Hill decreased on Wednesday. The value of shares was 178.10 at the start of the day and by the conclusion of business the value of shares was 176.30. [...]

Lawyers Like The French Market No Matter What

By: Donna Harding Rouletters Gambling News

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pm EST/EDT

Where there is money to be made, the lawyers are usually not far behind and the pending arrival of new French legislation to regulate their domestic online gambling market is turning into a real bonanza for the lawyers. Firstly, Casino De France, the representative body of the traditional casino industry has a couple of cases [...]

Out Of The Gate Strongly For 888

By: Tony Castella Rouletters Gambling News

Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 7:25 pm EST/EDT

It was a nice strong and steady start to the week for 888 Holdings PLC. The stock price increased on Monday September 28th 2009 even though the trading volume was relatively modest with he real volume of trades at the close of business finishing up at 525,323. Just to put this in a proper perspective, [...]

Online Casinos – The Old Standards Do Not Work

By: Thomas derlan Rouletters Gambling News

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 1:15 pm EST/EDT

As many countries have discovered over the last few years, enforcing domestic and national laws as they pertain to matters of the Internet is extremely difficult and some would suggest impossible. More specifically, the area of online casino legislation illustrates this particular problem perfectly. Governments have always liked to control all forms of gambling. The [...]

Some People Actually Like The Online Ban

By: Roger Doyle Rouletters Gambling News

Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 10:25 am EST/EDT

There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility of a lifting of the online gambling ban in the U.S. Most of this talk has been of a very positive nature and for the most part much of the speculation is at least based on sound logic. Barney Frank’s bill has been garnering [...]

Slow And Down End To The Week For The Sector

By: Thomas derlan Rouletters Gambling News

Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 7:03 pm EST/EDT

It was a pretty negative week all round for the online casino industry on the markets as we saw steadily declining numbers across the whole sector for most of the week. To illustrate, here are some of the numbers for a sample of the main industry names for Friday September 25th 2009. William Hill lost [...]

Time Of Reflection For European Governments

By: Paul Wiseman Rouletters Gambling News

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pm EST/EDT

As we reported here just a few days ago, the government in Holland has set up a committee to review it’s current legislation with regard to online gambling. Holland is not the only European country that is currently taking another look at online gambling. In the context of the European Union, there are essentially two [...]

Midweek Numbers Still On The Negative Side

By: Tony Castella Rouletters Gambling News

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 7:20 pm EST/EDT

Into midweek, the general negative numbers continued across the sector as most of the main players continued to struggle to maintain stock prices. A notable exception on the back of some positive news was Cryptologic. Shares in Cryptologic saw a raise on Wednesday September 23rd 2009 even though trading volume was modest with the volume [...]

Nice Little Bump For 888

By: Thomas derlan Rouletters Gambling News

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm EST/EDT

888 Holdings PLC stock was up for Tuesday September 22nd 2009. There was a strong percentage rise based on fairly average trading numbers where the number of shared traded over the course of the day settled at 966,069 95.10 was the standing of the shares at the day’s beginning and at the close of business [...]

Sector Wide Fall At The Start Of The Week

By: Bill Tignel Rouletters Gambling News

Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 7:30 pm EST/EDT

The start of the week was a little on the negative side for the industry on the markets. To give a flavor of this, let’s take a quick look at hos some of the major players performed for Monday September 21st 2009. Shares in William Hill took a hit on a day where The real [...]