Bad year for Bwin

The Austrian public company and major European gambling group Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG was being studied intently by analysts and market commentators this week after releasing a disappointing set of results that revealed a bigger than anticipated full year loss of Euro 539.6 million, compared to the previous year’s profit of Euro 6.4 million.

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Thu, April 19th, 2007

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