{"id":777004045,"date":"2023-04-05T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004045"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:05:09","slug":"agem-index-down-0-5-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-down-0-5-in-march","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index down 0.5% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AGEM Index decreased by 5.10 points to 945.81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.- The AGEM Index decreased by 0.5 per cent&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-down-0-2-in-february\" target=\"_blank\">month-on-month<\/a>&nbsp;to 945.81 in March. Compared to the same month last year,&nbsp;<strong>the index was down by 1 per cent or 9.59 points<\/strong>. Six out of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw their stock prices rise, contributing positively to the index, while seven contributed negatively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Konami Corp<\/strong> led the positive contributors, providing a 4.70-point gain for the index, followed by Aristocrat Leisure Limited with a 3.94-point gain. The index&#8217;s largest negative contributor was<strong> Crane Co<\/strong> with a 7.19-point loss due to a 5.2 per cent decrease in its stock price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2023, all three major US stock indices saw month-over-month increases. The NASDAQ increased by 6.7 per cent from February, while the S&amp;P 500 grew by 3.5 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased by 1.9 per cent from the prior month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGEM Index decreased by 5.10 points to 945.81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The AGEM Index, a key barometer for gaming equipment manufacturers, registered a 0.5% month-on-month decline to 945.81 in March, marking a 1% year-on-year decrease. This performance contrasts with the positive trajectory of major US stock indices, with constituent companies like Konami Corp and Aristocrat Leisure Limited providing positive contributions, while Crane Co was the primary detractor.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Konami Corp, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, Crane Co, NASDAQ, S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average","focusai_location":"Asia, United States","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index Discrepancy?","query":"What specific macro-economic factors or sector-specific headwinds are driving the AGEM Index's decline, contrasting with the positive performance of broader US stock indices, and what are the implications for B2B gaming capital expenditure?"},{"label":"Constituent Performance Analysis?","query":"Beyond stock price movements, what underlying operational or strategic developments within Konami Corp, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, and Crane Co explain their divergent contributions to the AGEM Index in March?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777004045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-finance-news","tag-agem-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777004045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004066,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004045\/revisions\/777004066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}