...NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) Dec. 20, 2016--S&P Global Ratings said today that it has reviewed its recovery and issue-level ratings in the U.S. gaming sector for most speculative-grade corporate issuers that were labeled as "under criteria observation" (UCO) after publishing its revised recovery ratings criteria on Dec. 7, 2016. With our criteria review complete, we are removing the UCO designation from these ratings and are revising the issue-level and recovery ratings as appropriate. This release pertains to rated companies in the U.S. gaming sector. The ratings list below is arranged alphabetically by issuer and identifies the debt instruments with ratings changes. As an overview, we are revising the issue-level ratings on six rated debt issues, reflecting four upgrades and two downgrades. In each case, the revision to the issue-level rating resulted from a revision to the recovery rating on the debt instrument. In addition, we are revising the recovery rating to '4' from '3' on one...
