{"id":32712,"date":"2013-01-31T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=32712"},"modified":"2013-01-31T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:50:18","slug":"video-consolidation-in-the-gaming-sector-sends-shares-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/01\/31\/video-consolidation-in-the-gaming-sector-sends-shares-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Consolidation in the Gaming Sector Sends Shares Soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=v79c75ebe431e8192d16c8e3bc0e2d5bf010985e2&#038;width=542&#038;height=304&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This morning, it was announced that Scientific Games (SGMS) would acquire WMS Industries (WMS) in a deal worth approximately $1.5 billion, or $26 per share. The acquisition was approved by both boards and will be immediately accretive to earnings.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/market_news\/2013\/01\/31\/ID201301SGMS013113_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/market_news\/2013\/01\/31\/ID201301SGMS013113_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, it was announced that Scientific Games (SGMS) would acquire WMS Industries (WMS) in a deal worth approximately $1.5 billion, or $26 per share. The acquisition was approved by both boards and will be immediately accretive to earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}