December 30th, 2011

The best way of judging any impact of any online gambling industry’s event is observe the respond of stocks of companies associated with gambling industries. Few days ago, in response to announcements of DoJ of United States, share prices of topmost operators of online gambling have shown significant increase. The announcement has also mentioned that Wire Act would be applicable to only sports betting companies and hence states of US can regulate online gambling.

The increase of stocks was observed in operators of both online and land based casinos and also in European and American stocks. Scientific Games Corp had shown massive increase of 15.4%, while Playtech Ltd. had shown huge 14.9% increase in their online gambling stocks. In addition to this, some other operators as William Hill, IGT and Ladbrokes have also shown increase in their stocks. As per an analyst of Roth Capital Research, “The lottery and sports betting operators in many states have shown significant benefits than other categories of operators of online gambling”.