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States auction goods online - Straits Times
ALBANY (New York) - WITH the economy continuing to tumble, more US state and local governments are using the Web to clear out inventory and bolster deflated budgets. Need a desk? An airplane? How about an armoured personnel carrier? Items like these ...

1,500 new homes, repos offered - Sacramento Bee
More than 1,500 new and foreclosed homes will go on the auction block in coming weeks in Northern California, as banks and builders try to clear inventory by year's end. But it's hardly a seasonal trend. All year, auctions have played a growing role ...

World record set for sapphire at Christie's auction - Deccan Herald
The precious stone market was in flux and it remained unclear where it was heading, David Bennett of Sotheby's said in a press statement, echoing comments made by industry experts. A world record was set when a 42-carat sapphire sold for $3.5 million ...

New York Kids Club Founder, Pam Wolf, Has Been Selected to Serve as an ... - 24-7PressRelease.com
Pamela Wolf founded the New York Kids Club in September of 2001. Since that time, the New York Kids Club has grown to become the premiere enrichment center for children 6 months - 12 years. Ms. Wolf, who was recently recognized as one of 2008's top ...

Bank of Canada to adjust purchases at auctions - Reuters
TORONTO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada said on Monday it is adjusting its purchase of nominal bonds at auctions to help gradually bring its holdings of government debt in line. The central bank said its ratio of treasury bill holdings to bond ...

Livestock auctions, crop reports - Herald-Standard
CATTLE: 261 [PDA] Compared with last week's sale; slaughter cows sold 1.50 to 2 lower; bulls sold higher. STEERS: Select 1 to 2, couple, 1,195 and 1,250 pounds, 72 and 79. Standard 1 to 2, 805 to 1,425 pounds, 54 to 61. HOLSTEIN STEERS: Choice 2 to 3 ...

Limited burley auctions open this week in state - Louisville Courier-Journal
The auctioneer's chant rang out yesterday at Clay Tobacco Warehouse in Mount Sterling, where about 302,000 pounds of leaf was sold. Sales opened earlier in the week at Farmers Tobacco Warehouse in Danville, where warehouse owner Jerry Rankin said 270 ...

Slow sales at art auctions may be sign of sanity - East Valley Tribune
NEW YORK - The sagging demand for high-end art at the fall auctions could signal a return to more realistic prices in the fine art market after the frenzied buying of the last few years. That’s the consensus of some art experts who say the lower ...

Auctions 'a lazy option' - News.com.au
HOME vendors are being duped and agents are committing "commercial suicide" by allowing too many homes to be auctioned in a tough economic climate, a leading real estate agent says. Tim Fletcher, director of Fletchers agency group, has attacked peers ...

S.J. home auctions are back on the block - Record
Foreclosure auctions first popped up in the Central Valley in summer 2007, when hardly anything was selling. Then the auctions basically evaporated as sales via local brokerage firms took off by year's end and got ever hotter this year. A small ...