{"id":777009035,"date":"2023-09-07T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009035"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:17:16","slug":"agem-index-up-1-2-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-1-2-in-august","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index up 1.2% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asia.-<strong>\u00a0The AGEM Index<\/strong>\u00a0rose by 12.91 points to 1,107.07 in August. That&#8217;s a 1.2 per cent increase\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-4-1-in-july\" target=\"_blank\">compared to the previous month<\/a>. In year-on-year terms, the index was up by 275.57 points or 33.1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw positive stock price gains, while five saw declines. Light &amp; Wonder&#8217;s stock rose 9.1 per cent: a 15.10-point gain for the index. <strong>Konami Corp<\/strong> rose 6.1 per cent, contributing a 6.99-point gain. On the flip side, International Game Technology saw a 5.4 per cent drop, generating an 8.16-point loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three major US stock indices registered monthly losses last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ, and S&amp;P 500 declined by 2.4 per cent, 2.2 per cent and 1.8 per cent, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777001538,"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 recorded a 1.2% month-over-month increase in August, reaching 1,107.07 points, marking a 33.1% year-on-year gain. This performance, driven by seven of twelve constituent companies including significant contributions from Light & Wonder and Konami Corp, occurred despite a general decline across major US stock indices and a notable drop for International Game Technology.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Light & Wonder, Konami Corp, International Game Technology, Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ, S&P 500","focusai_location":"United States","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index vs. Market?","query":"What specific factors contributed to the AGEM Index's divergence from the broader US market trends, particularly given the declines in the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500?"},{"label":"Supplier Performance Impact?","query":"How might the disparate performance of key B2B suppliers like Light & Wonder, Konami Corp, and International Game Technology impact their respective market shares, R&D investments, and competitive positioning in the upcoming fiscal quarters?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777009035","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\/777009035","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=777009035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009066,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009035\/revisions\/777009066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777001538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}