{"id":106536,"date":"2025-09-01T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106536\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:30:09","slug":"macau-sets-another-post-pandemic-record-in-august-as-ggr-hits-mop22-2-billion-iag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106536\/","title":{"rendered":"Macau sets another post-pandemic record in August as GGR hits MOP$22.2 billion \u2013 IAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pf-button-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/printfriendly-pdf-button.png\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\" style=\"width: 112px;height: 24px;\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Macau has continued its recent revenue momentum, with the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reporting Monday that gross gaming revenues for the month of August reached MOP$22.16 billion (US$2.76 billion).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means August set yet another post-pandemic GGR record, slightly exceeding the MOP$22.13 billion (US$2.73 billion) in gaming revenues generated in July and 12.2% higher than the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first eight months of 2025 combined, GGR is up 7.2% year-on-year to MOP$163.1 billion (US$20.3 billion).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sudden surge of Macau\u2019s gaming sector, which began in May after a slower-than expected start to the year, has seen industry analysts across the board revise upwards their 2025 GGR forecasts on predictions that double-digit growth will continue for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investment JP Morgan also hinted at the strength of August in a recent note in which it suggested revenues had hit their <a href=\"https:\/\/asgam.com\/2025\/08\/25\/jp-morgan-says-macau-ggr-now-at-highest-non-golden-week-levels-since-pandemic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest non-Golden Week levels<\/a> since the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asgam.com\/2025\/08\/26\/morgan-stanley-macau-gaming-stocks-likely-set-for-re-rating-given-recent-dividend-payouts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Confidence in the market<\/a> has been borne out in recent Macau results announcements, with a number of concessionaires declaring significant dividend payouts to shareholders even while share prices themselves remain slower to recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macau has continued its recent revenue momentum, with the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reporting Monday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-106536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}