The News Review:
- Rates rise at weekly Treasury auction
- Auction Napa Valley brings in $5.7M just 55% of 2008′s total
- Car auction to support K-State
- Ritchie Bros. auction in Mead sets sales record
- National Aviary holding online auction to name penguins
- Dinky toy van fetches £6400 in furious bidding at auction
- Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
Rates rise at weekly Treasury auction
The Associated Press
Rates on six-month bills hit the highest level since mid-April. The Treasury Department auctioned $31 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0. 190 percent up from 0. 150 percent last week.
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Auction Napa Valley brings in $5.7M just 55% of 2008′s total
Bizjournals.com
35 million haul netting about $5. 7 million over the weekend in the latest sign of the recession’s continuing grip on the region. That represented the lowest total since 2004 when the event raised $5. 3 million although it did manage to top the rival Naples (Florida) Winter Wine Festival which earlier this year saw its take shrink from $14 million in 2008 to just $5 million according to a report in Monday’s.
Car auction to support K-State
Bizjournals.com
7M in stimulus funds for deferred maintenance. com is helping to raise money for.
Ritchie Bros. auction in Mead sets sales record
The Associated Press
auction in Mead sets sales record1 day agoMEAD Colo. (AP) — Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers says a two-day auction at its site in Mead this week set a sales record for the site. The industrial equipment auctioneer says it sold nearly $35 million of equipment and trucks at the auction that ended Friday. About $11 million of the sales were made online. The site’s previous sales record was $29 million set at a two-day auction two years ago. The company says almost 3000 bidders from 24 countries registered for the auction that ended Friday and nearly 1900 items were for sale.
National Aviary holding online auction to name penguins
Bizjournals.com
It's the first time the Aviary has auctioned off naming rights for its animals said spokeswoman Laura Ellis. Bids will start at $500 and will be taken in increments of $50. The deadline for bids is 5 p. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Aviary's general operating budget Ellis said.
Dinky toy van fetches £6400 in furious bidding at auction
guardian.co.uk
Collectors from the US the UK and Australia bid furiously to be the owner of the four-inch long 52-year-old Austin A40 van miniature pushing the price up from the initial guide of £3000. It was finally bought by a British telephone bidder a private collector. The auction house Wallis and Wallis discovered it by chance among items brought in by a local dealer and identified it as an original Dinky toy. The van is unique because it is light blue and bears an mnisport logo ? a general store in El Salvador in the 1950s for which this model was made.
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
New York Times
According to traders at the close of the New York cash market on Friday the rate on the outstanding three-month bill was 0. The rate on the six-month issue was 0. 33 percent and the rate on the four-week issue was 0.