Citigroup: Maintains January Macau gambling total revenue forecast at 21.5 billion Macau patacas.

Citi released a research report stating that the total gambling revenue in Macau for the first 25 days of January reached 17.8 billion Macau patacas, with an average daily revenue of about 693 million Macau patacas in the previous week. This is a decrease of about 1% compared to the week of January 12th, but still 18% higher than the daily average revenue in January of last year. The bank maintains its forecast for total gambling revenue in January this year at 21.5 billion Macau patacas, representing an annual increase of 18%, meaning that the daily average revenue for the last 6 working days of this month needs to reach around 617 million Macau patacas. At the same time, the bank also maintains its forecast for total gambling revenue in January and February this year at 42 billion Macau patacas, representing an annual increase of 10.5%.