The News Review:
- Sold! Bargain hunters buying groceries at auction
- il-and-gas auction in Utah draws few low bids
- BND REPRT: Treasurys Improve After Fed Details Buying Strong 2 …
- Kenzo auctions art collection as he downsizes
- epa’s 2009 S2 auction proceeds slump to $9.6 million
- Demand Solid At 2-Yr JGB Auction As Banks Make Year-End Buys
- The Dead auctions front-row tickets for charity
Sold! Bargain hunters buying groceries at auction
Salt Lake Tribune
earlier this month. As consumers seek relief from the recession and spiraling food prices grocery auctions are gaining in popularity as an easy way to cut costs.
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il-and-gas auction in Utah draws few low bids
The Associated Press
Barely half of the 98 parcels sold — more than 76000 acres of land in southern and eastern Utah — some for as little as $2 an acre. “Given the current economic conditions — lower demand for oil products — there’s few if any of those parcels bought today that will be drilled this year” said David Terry a land agent who spent the most of any bidder on a drilling parcel. He spent $58000 for 930 acres in Utah’s southeast corner on behalf of an oil or gas company he declined to identify. “It’s a highly speculative business.
BND REPRT: Treasurys Improve After Fed Details Buying Strong 2 …
CNNMoney.com
Bond yields move inversely to prices. The long bonds have been whipsawed in the last week by changing expectationswhether the central bank would buy such long maturities. Two-year note yields (UST2YR) fell 2 basis points to 0. 93%before the auction of the securities. Benchmark 10-year yields (UST10Y) were little changed at 2. 65% after beinghigher before the Fed’s announcement.
Kenzo auctions art collection as he downsizes
The Associated Press
From Hopi Kachina dolls to bronze Buddhas more than 1000 pieces acquired over the past two decades will be on the block at the June 16-17 sale organized by Aguttes auction house the designer and his auctioneer said Tuesday. The catalog isn’t finished yet because Kenzo is hesitating about which objects to keep. But most of the collection will have to go. Kenzo has sold the 12000-square-foot (1100-square-meter) Japanese-style wooden house that he built in 1987 in the courtyard of an apartment building near Paris’ Place de la Bastille and will move into a Left Bank apartment about one-quarter that size this summer.
epa’s 2009 S2 auction proceeds slump to $9.6 million
Reuters
6 million| Environment| Reuters. Environmental Agency’s 2009 sulfur dioxide (S2) auction fell more than 80 percent to $9.
Demand Solid At 2-Yr JGB Auction As Banks Make Year-End Buys
Wall Street Journal
–>Demand Solid At 2-Yr JGB Auction As Banks Make Year-End Buys ArticleCommentsmore in. Japan’s Ministry of Finance sold Y1. 826 trillion of the 0. 4% notes at a lowest price of 99. 995 – a hair above traders’ expectations of 99.
The Dead auctions front-row tickets for charity
The Associated Press
“We want to do what we can to keep these folks up and running and in business. “Successful bidders won’t be able to collect their tickets until the day of a show to minimize scalping Weir said. Weir said he hoped the auction would raise at least $250000. ther charities the group is supporting include the Further Foundation which works for environmental and social causes; the Unbroken Chain Foundation which supports community service projects; and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society which is dedicated to protecting oceans and marine life. Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann is an avid supporter of the latter. “I live in Hawaii and right now it’s humpback whale season and we see them here” he said by phone Tuesday. “At the rate they are being slaughtered for ocean fishing there won’t be any left.