{"id":493,"date":"2009-01-14T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/1\/14\/Buyback-at-Isle"},"modified":"2009-01-14T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:48:00","slug":"buyback-at-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/buyback-at-isle\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyback at Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reader <strong>Bill Jones<\/strong> pointed out, <strong>Isle of Capri<\/strong> is making a first-come, first-served offer to retire 28% of senior debt at <a href=\"http:\/\/stlouis.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/stories\/2009\/01\/12\/daily20.html?ana=yfcpc\" class=\"broken_link\">55 cents on the dollar<\/a>. (Official version <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/090113\/aqtu044.html?.v=75\">here<\/a>.) Wall Street wasn&apos;t impressed, with Isle stock -16% as of this moment. But then what&apos;s with the market today? Voters in <strong>Black Hawk<\/strong>, Colo., <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/090114\/ameristar_casinos_mover.html?.v=1\">OK&apos;d expanded games<\/a>, hours and betting limits, and yet both <strong>Ameristar Casinos<\/strong> and <strong>Riviera Holdings<\/strong> (which operate in Black Hawk) are down roughly 12% in today&apos;s trading. The Black Hawk bulletin is a not-inconsiderable positive &#8212; but you wouldn&apos;t know it from Wall Street&apos;s glum reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reader Bill Jones pointed out, Isle of Capri is making a first-come, first-served offer to retire 28% of senior debt at 55 cents on the dollar. (Official version here.) Wall Street wasn&apos;t impressed, with Isle stock -16% as of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/buyback-at-isle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,85,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}