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• Thursday Market Meltdown: AKAM, GT, BID, AAPL & GM

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Aapl, Apple, Bid, General Motos, Generalmotos, Goodyear, Inthenews, Market, Odp, Office Depot, Office Max, Officedepot, Officemax, Omx, Sotheby S

  (ODP), OfficeMax Inc (OMX), Sotheby's (BID), Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT)While the market plummeted 311 points today on loan worries; it is easy for people to forget the market is still up. Last week when the Dow broke 14,000; it was up 12.3% for the year. Now the market is up 8.1%. But are we really in a crisis? Market corrections are a normal

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• Magnificent Arts of Buddha' at Sotheby's this month

  Published: September 4, 2007, 7:39 am

  Tags: Tibet, Maitreya, The Arts Of The Buddha, Sotheby S Auction, Buddhists

  The special theme for Sotheby’s sale this September will be ‘The Arts of the Buddha,’ featuring works of the major Far Eastern cultures in India, China and Cambodia. Among many other unique items, up for auction will be gilt copper Maitreya (pictured above) festooned with silver and semiprecious stones. The two foot

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• Have Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars? Citizen Kane Oscar Will Be Auctioned

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:32 am

  Tags: Citizen Kane, Citizenkane, Herman J Mankiewicz, Hermanj Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Orsonwelles, Oscar Auction, Oscar Statuette, Oscarauction, Oscarstatuette, Sotheby S

  is about to be auctioned by Sotheby's.It has been a long battle to get the Oscar on the auction block. The award was thought to be lost until it popped up at an earlier Sotheby's auction in 1994. A cinematographer who had once worked with Welles received it as payment, and had held it in secrecy until the auction. Welles' daughter Beatrice,

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• Ivana Trump Invokes Spirit of Grace Kelly in Makeshift Casino

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: The City, Grace Kelly, Ivana Trump, Sotheby Amp 039 S Holdings Inc

  night at the Sotheby's headquarters on the Upper East Side, all the stops were pulled for a Monaco casino-themed party in honor of Princess Grace Kelly. The late monarch's jewelry and gowns were on display on two floors in the York Avenue building, and in the 7th floor auction hall temporarily renamed for Steve Wynn, whose company donated

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• J.K. Rowling completes new book

  Published: November 2, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: Book, Dealthy Hallows, Dealthyhallows, Harry Potter, Harrypotter, J K Rowling, J K Rowling, Jk Rowling New Book, Jkrowlingnewbook, New Book, Newbook, Reading, Sotheby S, Tales Of Beedle The Bard, Talesofbeedlethebard

  calendar for the auction at Sotheby's on December 13. Proceeds from the sale will go to The Children's Voice, a charity that helps vulnerable children across Europe.It's not all bad news for Rowling fans. She says she has begun work on yet another project, "a half-finished book for children that I think will probably be the next thing I

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• Bernie Ecclestone's Mercedes-Benz fetches six million Euros

  Published: November 2, 2007, 7:42 am

  Tags: Vintage Cars, Bernie Ecclestone, Rm Auctions, Sotheby S, Mercedes Benz 540k Special Roadster

  Auctions in cooperation with Sotheby’s. The focus of the auction was the famous Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster, 1937 that went for 6 million Euros. Another Mercedes SSK Roadster model of 1928 and the spectacular Ford GT40 of 1966, a model derived from road car that dominated Le Mans were auctioned for 1.5 million Euros each. A BMW 507

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• Upcoming Art Auctions Test the Market

  Published: November 5, 2007, 9:48 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Christie Amp 039 S International Plc, Sotheby Amp 039 S Holdings Inc

  in New York and London, Sotheby's, Christie's, and the boutique house Phillips de Pury assumed that the good times would roll on. But will the art market bubble finally burst this year? Carol Vogel of The New York Times writes: After three years of speculation about a bust, will this be the moment when the art market finally crumbles?

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• Winning at Cards

  Published: November 4, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Winning, Cards, Mastercard Inc, David Tay, Ed Mierzwinski, Michael Cheng, Credit Com, Sotheby S Holdings Inc, John Ulzheimer, Mark Shipley, Warren Wilkins, California, American Express Company, Cardweb Com Inc, Citigroup Inc, Creditcardgoodies Com, Deloitte Touche Toh

  Michael Cheng and his wife, Nicole, each have four credit cards in their wallets. A Post-it note on the top left corner of each card lets them know which one to use for what.

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• Auctioning off the Magna Carta?

  Published: November 6, 2007, 11:17 pm

  Tags: Magna Carta, Ross Perot, Sotheby Apos S

  terminated the loan. Sotheby's will auction off the document in December 2007.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/nyregion/25magna.htmlHow bizarre is that? Number one that Perot would buy it, number two that after doing something reasonable and generous with it, he would then pull an asshole move and put it up for auction?

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• Fed Chairman Forecasts Slowdown in U.S. Economy

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fed, Chairman, Forecasts, Slowdown, U S, Economy, Ben Bernanke, Federal Housing Administration, U S Federal Reserve, John Silvia, John Sununu, Wall Street, Cisco Systems Inc, Credit Suisse Group, Macy S Inc, Sotheby S Holdings Inc, Wachovia Corporation, Wal Mart Stores

  The economy is likely to slow through the first half of 2008, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said yesterday, as members of Congress called on him to take aggressive action to prevent a worsening mortgage crisis.

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• Art Houses Brawl This Week

  Published: November 12, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Christie Amp 039 S International Plc, Sotheby Amp 039 S Holdings Inc

  It's been three years since Sotheby's has been able to match or beat Christie's sales totals. But this season, with all eyes fixed on Sotheby's as never before, the house comes out swinging with two major Francis Bacon canvases, a self-portrait and Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1. In the other corner, there's Christie's Andy Warhol's

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• Remains of the Day: Stolen Art; Michi on Sacks; Rowling's Latest

  Published: November 20, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, J Paul Getty Museum, J K Rowling, Marion True, Michiko Kakutani, Oliver Sacks, Sotheby Amp 039 S Holdings Inc

  Van Gogh, Lucian Freud Sotheby's has released an early look at J.K. Rowling's latest book, which will be auctioned for charity on Dec.

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• The ‘Journal’ Helps With Our Holiday Gift Planning

  Published: December 7, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: White Men With Money, Lexus, Mayor Bloomberg, Sotheby S, Submarines, The Astors, Wall Street Journal

  necklace that is selling at Sotheby's. But none of those really feel right. Gosh, what does Bloomberg need right now? What can we get our favorite mayor of Munchkinland? Oh, right. A new Lexus. Bloomberg's Car Stolen for Second Time [NYP] The Wealth Report [WSJ] Earlier: Old Astor Summer Manse on the Block for $16 Million

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• Guennol Lioness from Mesopotamian era fetches record $ 57.2 million

  Published: December 7, 2007, 7:32 am

  Tags: Guennol Lioness, Mesopotamian Sculpture, Sotheby S Auction, Alastair Bradley Martin

  dollars. The occasion was Sotheby’s auction in New York on Wednesday. Acquired by a private collector Alastair Bradley Martin in 1948, it was put on display in New York’s Brooklyn Museum of Art ever since. This figure was endowed with meticulous craftsmanship that even today evokes the imagination of antiquity lovers owing to

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• Citizen Kane Script Sells Big, Oscar Gets Snubbed at Sotheby's

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Arts Amp Amp Culture, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Sotheby Amp 039 S Holdings Inc

  went for last night at a Sotheby's auction. An anonymous phone bidder nabbed the final revised draft (before the final shooting script was scribed) for $97,000. But the Oscar for the film was withdrawn from the bidding block when the Scrooges wouldn't even caught up a measely $800,000 (the statuette's minimum bid). The Associated Press

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