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Shaker, +1-312-368-3413 (Chicago)Mark Campa, +1-512-215-3727 (Austin)Media Relations:Cindy Stoller, +1-212-908-0526 (New York)Copyright Business Wire 2009. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The slump in Las Vegas may be bottoming out, but odds are good that a coming wave of new resorts will hinder any rebound in hotel rates or casino revenue.That could put a cap on profits at recession-battered casino companies.Companies like MGM Mirage, Las Vegas Sands Corp and Wynn Resorts Ltd this week reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, helping to boost their heavily battered stock prices.”I see that starting in September — maybe October, more appropriately — we are going to have an accelerated booking pace … I hesitate to use the word getting back to normal, but I think we are getting close to getting back to normal in 2010,” Sheldon Adelson, Sands’ chairman and chief executive, said on a conference call on Tuesday.Analysts, however, warn that there is no concrete evidence as yet that the bottom of the downturn is in sight in Las Vegas.”There has been some talk of things turning around in Las Vegas … “We are not adding significant gaming capacity to the market … The intent is to complement, not compete with, our portfolio, and frankly the portfolios of our competitors.”He predicted that CityCenter’s “18 million square feet of excitement” will boost demand for travel to Las Vegas.”We think the visitation in Las Vegas is going to be up at least 5 or 6 percent next year.

And we think we are going to be largely responsible for it,” Murren said.Even that rate, however, would fall well short of the coming room supply increase.”The earnings story is tough … Casinos have lots of fixed costs and they have already cut what they can,” said Bill Lerner, an analyst at Union Gaming Group.But he said he is hopeful that once people who do travel to Las Vegas begin to spend more money the shift will be reflected in the stock prices of casino operators.(Editing by Gerald E McCormick). WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) – The Obama administration hasnot fully reviewed plans that major banks have put forward toraise additional capital as required by the recent stresstests, but those plans will be assessed to determine theircredibility, a White House spokesman said on Friday. Stocks  |  Regulatory News  |  Bonds Stocks Regulatory News Bonds. GOLDEN, COLORADO AND CARSON CITY, NEVADA, May 08(MARKET WIRE) — Lake Victoria Mining Company, Inc (“LVCA”) (OTCBB: LVCA) and KilimanjaroMining Company, Inc. (“Kilimanjaro”) are pleased to announce that theyhave entered into a non-binding letter of intent (the “Letter of Intent”)wherein LVCA would acquire up to a one hundred percent controllinginterest in Kilimanjaro pursuant to a share exchange or issuance, merger,amalgamation, or other form of business combination (the “ProposedTransaction”).Kilimanjaro is a private Nevada-based company exploring for anddeveloping, gold, uranium and strategic metal resources in Tanzania, EastAfrica.

Kilimanjaro recently completed a Property Acquisition Agreementwith Geo Can Resources Company Limited (“Geo Can”) a corporationincorporated and existing pursuant to the laws of Tanzania with aregistered address at P.O Box 80079, Dar es Salaam, United Republic ofTanzania. Under the terms of the agreement Kilimanjaro acquired 100% ofthe mineral property assets of Geo Can. This included nine separate goldproject areas comprised of over 40 unique prospecting licenses and sixseparate uranium project areas comprised of over 14 unique prospectinglicenses.LVCA is a Nevada company with headquarters in Golden, Colorado, and ispublicly traded on the NASDAQ:OTCBB. LVCA is working to create anothergold mine in the world famous Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt, Tanzania,East Africa.