{"id":2287,"date":"2010-02-16T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2010-02-16T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:31:15","slug":"canaries-in-the-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/canaries-in-the-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Canaries in the coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A minor brouhaha has been playing out in the pages of Howard Stutz<\/strong>‘s blog. Last Friday, Susquehanna Financial Group<\/strong> apparently sacked gaming analyst Robert LaFleur<\/strong>. \u201c[D]ue to the departure of the analyst from the firm,” said SFG, with faultless deadpan comedic delivery, it would be discontinuing coverage<\/a> of the sector.<\/p>\n

For all of one day<\/a>, that is. Even before LaFleur’s seat cushion was cool, Rachael Rothman<\/strong> had been designated to fill it. So casino coverage is back “on” at SFG. Could this have anything to do with LaFleur’s divergence from the preferred narrative<\/a> that MGM Mirage<\/strong> is running away from the field with CityCenter<\/strong>? Or his blowing the whistle<\/a> on sinking room rates at Aria<\/strong>? In the gaming sector, nobody dares whisper a discouraging word about, say, the ongoing fiasco that is Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>, so Lerner’s CityCenter heresy probably came as a rude shock. It will be interesting to see where he and lands and whether Ms. Rothman is more inclined to sing from the Wall Street<\/strong> hymnal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A minor brouhaha has been playing out in the pages of Howard Stutz‘s blog. Last Friday, Susquehanna Financial Group apparently sacked gaming analyst Robert LaFleur. \u201c[D]ue to the departure of the analyst from the firm,” said SFG, with faultless deadpan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,28,11,12,108,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}