A Few Resisted Sector Downturns
The financial and consumer discretionary sectors have tumbled in the past year. But the gloom has not been uniform. Some shares have fought the trend. The winners are in recycled auto parts (LKQ), housewares (Tupperware Brands), gambling (WMS Industries), and property and casualty insurance (Midl…
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Gambling casinos info:
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
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