Shuffle Master Shares Sink on Earnings

Shares of Shuffle Master Inc., which sells automatic card-shuffling and chip-sorting devices to casinos, tumbled Friday a day after swinging to a fiscal second-quarter loss, but analysts were confident on its long-term possibilities.

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Fri, June 9th, 2006

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