Broadly speaking, there is limited tourism in the French Quarter, as opposed to the population in the suburbs. It’s encouraging for the local economy and I think they’ll do a good business with construction workers.

We believe Shuffle Master can continue to grow earnings per share at 25 percent to 30 percent.

Despite this slow start to the fourth quarter, we believe fundamentals on the Las Vegas Strip remain solid for the balance of the quarter and into 2006 ….

While Harrah’s may have the most exposure in terms of the number of properties and total dollar amount of cash flow in the Gulf region, the impact for the company is not significant as a...

In all likelihood, operators will start getting business interruption insurance in the fourth quarter, which would add upside to our forecasts.