The News Review:
- WaMu Swaps Auction Sets Payout of 43 Cents on Dollar (Update2)
- Las Vegas’ First Online Auction of New Homes Attracts Hundreds of …
- IncrediMail Announces Sale of $5 Million of Auction Rate …
- Signs of weakness in collector car auction market
- Greenhouse Gas Auction Revenues Can Help Cut Maryland Electric Use …
- Jets score big in online auction for seats
- Two Hurt As Van Plows Into Auto Auction
WaMu Swaps Auction Sets Payout of 43 Cents on Dollar (Update2)
Bloomberg
An auction held among 14 dealers today set a value of 57cents on the dollar for WaMu senior bonds, less than the 63. 6cents after the first round and lower than where the bonds weretrading yesterday. The auction determines how much investors whobought default protection in the credit-default swaps market canclaim. Prices on WaMu bonds due in January fell 6. 6 cents on thedollar to 58.
Las Vegas’ First Online Auction of New Homes Attracts Hundreds of …
MarketWatch
, Oct 23, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
The month-long auction campaign of a well-known regional developer’s
year end closeout of homes in northern Las Vegas has already reached the
halfway mark, leaving interested buyers just two weeks to visit the
properties, conduct due diligence, and place a competitive bid. The
auction, held by LFC Group of Companies, a Southern California online
auction marketing company, on its residential real estate website FRE.
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IncrediMail Announces Sale of $5 Million of Auction Rate …
MarketWatch
com),
an Internet company, announced today that it has sold $5. 0 million of
Auction Rate Securities (ARS) to Credit Suisse, which sold the
securities to IncrediMail in July of 2007. IncrediMail will receive $5. 0
million, (100% of par value) for the securities. In the fourth quarter of 2007, as a result of the well-publicized
illiquidity in the ARS market, IncrediMail was required to take a $4.
Signs of weakness in collector car auction market
Los Angeles Times, CA
Its most recent sale, at the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas Strip last weekend, was ushered in with a performance by. A beach party followed.
Greenhouse Gas Auction Revenues Can Help Cut Maryland Electric Use …
Science Daily (press release)
Members of the 10-state RGGI group, including Maryland, recently conducted the nation’s first carbon emissions auction, raising nearly $40 million in revenues. State officials have begun making plans for allocating that money, with the largest portion to be devoted to efforts to increase energy efficiency. The new study concludes that:
Investing a greater share of auction revenues in programs designed to encourage more efficient consumer and commercial use of electricity will produce significantly greater benefits, keeping the state on track to meet its energy-use reduction targets. Even though prices may not go down, consumers may see some modest savings because they consume less electricity due to efficiency improvements. The overall economic impact on the state of these investments will be positive.
Jets score big in online auction for seats
MSNBC
But the New York Jets delivered, becoming the first team from the American Football League to capture an AFL-NFL Championship. Today, the franchise is looking to establish another first in a different area: the online auction of personal seat licenses. Far from underdogs this time, the Jets may end up the envy of the NFL; the payoff will be far larger than the biggest Vegas wager placed almost 40 years ago on those AFL upstarts. Since the dawn of the Internet, online auctions have helped sports memorabilia merchants and buyers. In the past few months, for instance, the New York Mets have sold thousands of pairs of seats from soon-to-be-demolished Shea Stadium this way, netting hundreds of thousands of dollars. But this is the first time the medium has been utilized to set the price of PSLs through an auction of 2,000 prime seats at.
Two Hurt As Van Plows Into Auto Auction
NBC30.com, CT
– Fire officials said Thursday seven people were hospitalized after a van malfunctioned and hit a crowd of people at an auto auction. Fire officials declined to comment on their injuries but said they were severe enough to send the two to the trauma center.