The News Review:
- JGBs retreat on caution before auctions
- Treasurys Rally n Solid Demand In 7-Year Auction
- China 1-yr bill yield seen rising 5 bps at auction
- Take us to your highest bidder: Hollywood aliens on the auction block
- Ritchie Bros. Las Vegas auction site “hot destination” for …
- Christie’s Hong Kong to Auction The Vivid Pink Diamond in Dec.
- Kankakee County Fair livestock auction brings top dollar
JGBs retreat on caution before auctions
Reuters
5 bps By Shinichi Saoshiro TKY Aug 3 (Reuters) – Japanese government bonds retreatedon Monday with the benchmark 10-year yield rising to a six-weekhigh as caution prevailed ahead of 10- and 30-year debt auctionsdue later in the week. Ten-year bonds underperformed on Monday as dealers sold thematurity to make room on their books before a 2. 1 trillion yen($22 billion) 10-year auction on Tuesday. 270 percent early in July pushedhigher by concerns over a potential further increase ingovernment debt supply and a rally in Japanese stocks. “A decent auction outcome is expected as yields have risensufficiently in the eyes of investors since the previous auction.
Treasurys Rally n Solid Demand In 7-Year Auction
Wall Street Journal
–>Treasurys Rally n Solid Demand In 7-Year Auction ArticleCommentsmore in. Treasury prices rose across all maturities after the $28 billion sale the final auction in a record $115 billion offering of Treasurys this week. The auction drew the most interest from large institutional investors including foreign central banks of the three note sales this week. This demand known as the “indirect bid” accounted for a robust 62. 5% of the offering compared with the 67.
China 1-yr bill yield seen rising 5 bps at auction
Forbes
6984 percent up for a third straight week since the bank resumed the sale of such bills in early July. Traders said the central bank was likely to let the auction yield on one-year bills rise slightly from last week’s level which remains below the 1. 7250 percent bid level in secondary market yields on central bank bills with that tenor according to Reuters Reference Rates. ‘The one-year bill auction yield is still a little on the low side so it may rise about 5 bps tomorrow’ said a trader at a securities firm in Shanghai. But a trader in a domestic bank in Shenzhen argued that the central bank was unlikely to let yields on one-year bills rise more than 4 bps in the auction in an effort to prevent further major increases in secondary market yields amid a string of initial public equity offers.
Take us to your highest bidder: Hollywood aliens on the auction block
Los Angeles Times
1 (it starts at 9:30 a. each day) The sell-off has some fun pop-culture artifacts such as Dr. Evil's escape pod from the 1997 film "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" and a whole mess of extraterrestrials as you see above.
Ritchie Bros. Las Vegas auction site “hot destination” for …
PR Newswire (press release) (press release)
Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA) the world’s largest industrial auctioneer is conducting a large public multi-million dollar unreserved equipment auction in Las Vegas Nevada on Friday August 7 2009 starting at 7:00 a. More than 1000 construction and transportation equipment items from nearly 120 different owners will be sold to the highest bidders on auction day with no minimum bids or reserve prices. In February of 2008 Ritchie Bros. officially opened the auction site at 10500 Clark Petersen Blvd in Las Vegas.
Christie’s Hong Kong to Auction The Vivid Pink Diamond in Dec.
Diamonds.net
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Kankakee County Fair livestock auction brings top dollar
Kankakee Daily Journal
With fewer animals on the block the grand total for all sales ($116229. 10) was not a record but the 121 bidders on hand Sunday kept the average per-pound prices at or above all-time highs. "The steers at $2. 59 a pound was definitely a record" said auction spokesperson Gary Kohl.