Hints and tips:
...“Christy was that guy at EY who everyone wanted to hate,” says Crane. “He came in as a graduate, managing managers, who said, ‘This guy’s really annoying, but he’s really good.’”...
...The short seller published a report on Wednesday morning alleging decades of stock price manipulation and accounting fraud at Adani Group, the sprawling Indian industrial conglomerate controlled by billionaire...
...Christy Hoffman, general secretary of international federation UNI Global Union, said criticism of Amazon’s treatment of workers in its fulfilment centres was affecting its ability to retain tech talent....
...“I get it,” says James Thomson, a former Amazon manager who now advises third-party sellers. “Amazon is the new Red Cross.”...
...But against expectations, Christies’ winter show, juxtaposing some of its biggest contemporary sellers with works by members and friends of the Brueghel dynasty, is a marvellously stimulating exhibition....
...The practice of competing with rival auction houses for star lots by offering high guarantees to sellers, coupled with ambitious expansion into new growth markets including China and India, has led some...
...A wine merchant will take commissions of 10-15 per cent from the seller, for instance, while an auctioneers’ “buyer’s premium” is typically 20-25 per cent....
...Sotheby’s, along with its arch rival Christies, had been accused of colluding to fix prices and was facing an exodus of its top specialists, and Mr Ruprecht had been charged with cleaning up the embarrassing...
...Stanley Gibbons is also a buyer and seller of stamps and a creator of investment products based on stamp ownership....
...Had the parcel been under the hammer at Christies, the auctioneer would have had to buy the lot in....
...– the jazz boîtes of the Ensanche, where he sometimes played with the legendary Catalan jazz pianist and lamp-seller Pere Ferré....
...They're not easy sellers.” But he argues this apprehensiveness is misplaced as most people did enough science at school to appreciate these beautiful, fantastically made objects....
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