now omun is known to the whole world under the name of macao, the gia fortress is one of the highestmacao from here, the city is visible at a glance, and this is how they call both the fortress itself and the chapel of the virgin mary located in it. but from the seigneur of dagia, we call it chapels. hygia chapels by portuguese, that is, the one who guides shows the way, indicating better than this lighthouse, it can be seen in many ways the fortress began to be built in 1622, and at the end of the nineties of the last century during conservation work. we found special frescoes inside the amazing frescoes that we have now. the residents are so proud. macao are rather poorly preserved, however, it is obvious that the masters who created them tried to combine european and chinese traditions of fine art. gia fortress was built after an unsuccessful attempt the dutch conquered macao for a very long time, the fortress remained a military base and outsiders were not allowed here only once a year on the fifth of august , everyone could come to the chapel when the military base lost its sign

employees and regulators in macao, the only las vegas ceo who has actually been to macao since the pandemictomorrow for an exclusive interview right here on "halftime report" and will be able to probe more deeply into a lot of the questions about macroeconomics, what he's seeing in china and certainly what he's seeing around the united states in terms of leisure travelers particularly at the high end >> contessa, thank you contessa brewer in las vegas for us you are our resident casino shareholder, mr. jim lebenthal >> that was a fabulous report. she covered everything and there was a lot to cover, a lot of moving parts with what's going on with casinos, scott i will cover two things -- >> macao >> actually not. let's let that percolate the two things are this, she mentioned ces, big, big convention held in january the first time it's been back in person that used to be the big one. let's see what mr. billings says about the impact of that in the first quarter. the second thing is mr. billings he and his management team do an excellent job of communicating i mean really good they tell it li

out the hour, that the government's award of 200 more tables should help them shore up the grab in macaotessa brewer in las vegas, thanks guy. >> we've been talking about win it's working out now obviously tillman bought the stock in the fall, i think around 60 bucks. that was pretty well done. i've got to tell you something, it's probably still cheap here i understand why people say, let's save money off the table the same triple digits for a while. we continue to grind higher. >> i've been pronouncing his name wrong all these years. >> let the record show that you pronounce it tillman fertitta. i know his ears are ringing. up next, final trades. are we getting a dog? a great dane? two great danes?! i know. giant uncle dane and his giant beard. maybe a dragon? no, dragons are boring. twin sisters! and one is a robot and one is a knight. and i'll be on the side of... the octopus. rawr!!! the volkswagen atlas. more room for possibilities. i know the markets have gone up and down, but you're right on track to reach your goals. my ameriprise advisor helps me feel confident about my financia

i also like it because early in the pandemic had little exposure to macao macao has opened now i thinks still have some tail wind but i think it's under review for me going into the second half of the year as i believe the consumer will slow down, and i think some of these stocks go down with it >> shannon, would you look at wynn and las vegas sands again i know you got out of those names. any thought about getting back into them? >> obviously, frank, we're continuing to see that rotation from goods to services spending. consumers are looking for experiences and with the china reopenings beginning in early january there's certainly an opportunity for macao which is why we owned sands we wanted to be exposed to that and potentially leverage that. i think when i think about gaming, however, contessa made a great point about the spend that's necessary to get new users for draftkings or fanduel or online. i think being in massachusetts and watching all those ads the last couple of weeks, the spend is still really significant. and so i think the benefit of being with some of the old guard,

macao dropped their restrictions on monday. and face masks they say have played an important role if reducing transmission. but now that most people have been advavaccinated, the legal mandate is now past due and they can determine on their own whether they want to wear one or not. this is coming after the government dropped its hello hong kong campaign to bring back tourists and international businesspeople and starting wednesday they can breathe easy with the mask mandate effectively over. kristie lu stout, cnn, hong kong. >>> still ahead, florida's governor flexes his political muscle, details on ron desantis' power play against disney as he eyes a presidential run. >>> and emotional triaestimony the trial of murdaugh. >>> and plus the white house is setting a deadline to bannic it toik tiktok from government-issued devices. cuh-congestion? better. cough? fever? better. mucinex all in one relieves 9 symptoms in 1 dose. it's not cold and flu season. it's always comeback season. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's

and i think that is a benefit to us >> i know it's early, but the results from macao over chinese new people put down to exchange for chips and things like that, that it hit 95% of 2019 levels over that same period you're known, though, for your vip play is your demographic going to shift post pandemic to a more mass customer? >> we began to shift with the opening of palace. some folks understood that and some folks didn't. so in january we had market share that was consistent with the whole of 2019 yet there's no junkets. i felt a subtle vindication in that, to be perfectly honest the customer is mass oriented now. we did see growth in our direct vip program, those that come directly to us, and it performed very well during chinese new year as well >> are you optimistic about the rest of 2023 chinese new year is always gangbusters. >> it has been above expectations for a comparable period in 2019, 2018, et cetera. which i think bodes well the explosive return of customer demand in macao does make us bullish but i will caveat that and say it's only been a month >> talk to me about you

mgm missed on earnings, bigger losses, but they're saying vegas and macao are picking back up, and walle benefit of the doubt. ashley: chinese market so vital. let's talk about alphabet, susan. finishing down more than 7% yesterday after that, what, a.i. faux pas -- [laughter] any update to this? susan: i think there's more to that than just the faux pas. at its losses, at the bottom yesterday it was down $100 billion. now, alphabet can afford that since they're worth $1. 3 trillion, but some bad pr on that much-hyped chat bot called bard, and it's meant to compete with chatgpt which we know microsoft is incorporating in their new bing search engine. bard gave the wrong answer when asked a question. bard said the telescope took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system. astronomers say that's wrong, it was europe's southern telescope that took the first photos in 2004. i can tell you most of the losses -- that didn't help, obviously, but it's an existential threat right now when you have microsoft, which is a bigger company than alphabet, being able to incorpor

optimistic outlooks, wynn said it experienced a, quote, meaningful return of visitation and demand in macaothe chinese gambling mecca, during the new year holiday. las vegas sands are hitching on to that wagon a little bit. lvs up a quarter of a percent. chinese adr ares earlier were seeing gains, alibaba up 2.8% on hopes for a continued economic recovery post-covid lockdowns there. at this hour investors in the u.s. looking ahead to big quarterly reports after the closing bell. we are waiting on paypal, lyft and expedia. all three are moving lower with lyft the biggest loss leader, could be about 3%. economic data, we can't forget that, weaker employment data has been helping market sentiment at least earlier in the session. we got the number of weekly jobless claims, these are first-time unemployment, i need to get benefits applications jumping up by 13,000 to 196,000. that's more than expected. and while it's, perhaps, a small kind of a tiny crack in the labor market, the overall jobs picture does remain strong, and that, of course, causes concern over the fed's restrictive rate hike pol

meantime, macao revenue, up 82 in january las vegas sands, a year and a half high. >> people are going's still -- david, i try to say this to you, but your level of cynicism always shocks me. people are glad to be alive, and they want to see the world before they perish they want to do things >> that's a -- that's good advice >> life's too short. >> good advice from a man who wears a tie more or less every waking moment. >> i didn't say i'm part of this world. >> basically works 18 hours a day. that's great advice. thanks >> i'm going to miami as part of my college tour, and i have a saturday off, so i'm wearing zane >> are you recruiting? just a reunion >> university of miami where are you going? >> university of miami yeah and i'm just trying to figure out whether i should wear brione a lot of people wearing swimsuits. me, they got the speedo. me, i got the 180-count thread >> nice. i think that's way preferable to seeing you in a speedo >> remember what i said about this versus your entire wardrobe >> yes, it's worth more money than my entire wardrobe. >> no, this one's worth your w

. >> another conversation in which macao is like, oh yeah, china's opening. >> the biggest gambling destinationd and we haven't even brought it up on this monday morning. >> biggest gain for us over the weekend. thanks, contessa >>> when we come back, we'll talk goldman and job cuts, some reporting about the company and their view of how head count should be reduced. take a look at futures here. opening bell in less than ten minutes. interesting piece. let me bring in my expert. mmm so many scratches... oh those are from my car keys. - such a rich history. - yeah. this won't do well at auction. but at at&t, it's worth a brand-new samsung galaxy s23. - wait really? - mmhmm. what about this? at&t's deal is back. - wow. pre-order a free samsung galaxy s23 with a galaxy phone trade-in. any year, any condition. ♪ looking for something like this? super heroes are everywhere. in our movies, communities, and running our small businesses. and they can grow online securely with mastercard tools, extending their reach far beyond the storefront. because when you see the super hero you can be, that's pricel

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but wynn did see better traffic at its macao casinos during the lunar new year holiday seeing some momentumre going to end with a check on tesla, which is helping to contribute to the big outsized gain for the nasdaq premarket. it is up right now 3.5% itself on just around 2 million shares of premarket volume, getting some help from headlines that a u.s. auto safety board investigation into a fatal crash of a tesla model s back in texas in 2021 found that there was no evidence that there was an operation on auto pilot for that car on that particular time and that it was likely that higher speeds for the driver caused that fatality. so tesla shares up 3.5%. and, remember, joe, they got a big investor day coming up the beginning of march there is probably some -- at least anticipation, it has been a big juggernaut of a stock to start the year we'll see if it continues. >> that's in march all right. we'll put that on the calendar dom chu, thank you >>> when we come back, pepsico's vice chair and cfo hue johnston is going to join us to break down the company's quarter >>> and later, we will hea