Nov 17, 2014 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck  
The continued bank credit decline in mainland China suggests no imminent rebound in VIP gaming in Macau, says Wells Fargo Securities LLC.
“We believe growth in credit is necessary for growth to resume in Macau,” a trio of analysts led by Cameron McKnight wrote in a note. “In our view, Chinese credit growth is one of a few key leading indicators of Macau revenue growth,” they added.
Official data released last week showed total bank lending and other forms of credit in mainland China fell 36 percent month-on-month in October. Measured in year-on-year terms, the drop was over 20 percent. More recent economic data point to further weakness, according to several financial analysts.
The Macau casino market as a whole has seen year-on-year declines in gross gaming revenue since June, mostly triggered by drops in VIP revenue and, more recently, also in the mass market. The October decline of 23 percent was the biggest year-on-year monthly drop since the Macau government started to issue gaming revenue data in its current form in 2005.
“We estimate credit growth leads VIP growth by six to 12 months and we have yet to see a meaningful uptick in credit growth [in mainland China],” Wells Fargo analysts pointed out.
They added: “Given the observed relationship (77 percent correlation) between credit growth and VIP gaming, we expect VIP growth to remain weak for the next six months… If [central] government policies towards Macau do not ease or credit does not begin to improve, we do not expect growth to turn positive until at least the third quarter of 2015 on easier compares.”
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