{"id":3486,"date":"2015-07-01T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2015-07-01T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:10:13","slug":"melco-crown-entertainment-mpel-stock-soaring-as-casino-stocks-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/melco-crown-entertainment-mpel-stock-soaring-as-casino-stocks-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Melco Crown Entertainment (MPEL) Stock Soaring as Casino Stocks Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TheStreet) &#8212; Shares of Melco Crown Entertainment  (MPEL &#8211; Get Report) are rising higher by 6.09% to $18.99 in early afternoon trading on Tuesday, as some casino stocks get a jolt from reports that China is relaxing its restrictions on local tourists visiting the countrys Macau gambling hub.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists holding passports from mainland China may now stay seven days in Macau, up from the current five day limitation, Chinas Xinhua News agency said, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Chinas government began restricting the length of time tourists from the mainland may spend in the gambling district as part of its anticorruption and cheating crackdown, Bloombergnoted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/13204160\/1\/melco-crown-entertainment-mpel-stock-soaring-as-casino-stocks-rise.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TheStreet) &#8212; Shares of Melco Crown Entertainment (MPEL &#8211; Get Report) are rising higher by 6.09% to $18.99 in early afternoon trading on Tuesday, as some casino stocks get a jolt from reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1302],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}