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...Such intimate works “could get lost in an auction environment”, Ward says....
...The heavily-underwritten auctions reflected a nervousness, later realised, that demand would be slow....
...That pipeline is rich this autumn: Sotheby’s, for example, is fielding this autumn’s blockbuster, the $400mn sale of works from the estate of the uber-collector Emily Fisher Landau....
...Mega-offerings in New York next month include the $400mn-plus Emily Fisher Laudau collection at Sotheby’s — with a 1932 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter estimated at $120mn — and, at Christie’s,...
...His auction house offers 23 works on November 11, again all guaranteed....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...True, Mattel, which also owns Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price, has had a good pandemic. The company pulled in $4.5bn in sales last year, a 2 per cent increase from 2019....
...store that could easily be mistaken for a homely offshoot of the V&A....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...The upward swing of a “V” dip in growth after a hurricane comes from the rebuilding that puts contractors back to work....
...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...The South Dakota v Wayfair ruling, handed down last month, will open the door for states to pass legislation to require online merchants to collect and pay sales tax for sales within their borders....
...It could become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in London....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...The auction house Phillips has raised the fees it charges buyers, in a bid to bolster revenues....
...We just think some people are comically underestimating how hard it would be to force India’s v v diffuse population to give up its gold....
...That compares with 3 per cent for auctions, says Bill Hambrecht, whose eponymous firm participated in IPO auctions for Google, Rackspace and NetSuite....
...He founded Rocket Internet in 1999 with his brothers Marc and Alexander after the sale of their online auctions business Alando.de to eBay....
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...The case stems from a Spanish national’s request that Google stop linking to a 16-year-old announcement relating to the auction of his house because of social security debts....
...Awkward (Financial Times) Moscow’s ‘political technologists’ specialise in creating pure spectacle (Financial Times) Sleaze v spin in Mexico’s race for reform (Financial Times) The SEC is turning into...
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Thermo Fisher’s acquisition of Life Technologies has all the marks of a transaction struck at the peak of a merger and acquisitions cycle – a big premium, an intense auction between strategic and private...
...Thermo Fisher Scientific beat out a private equity consortium to win the auction for Life Technologies and will pay $13.6bn for the life sciences company....
...There are no other private equity bids and Thermo Fisher is the only strategic buyer left in the auction, people familiar with the auction say....
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