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On top of a heavy auction schedule in January, if a rise in consumer prices is confirmed, the market will shift its focus to the approaching timing of a BOJ policy shift and keep up pressure especially on the shorter maturities.

Offshore drilling could turn our beaches and coastal waters into an industrial zone. Rather than auction off our valuable coastline to oil and gas companies, Virginia should be leading the way with energy solutions that will sustain our energy needs and our economy far into the future.

Additionally, the auction will also introduce new media like installation, sculpture and photography.

Depending on competition from other bidders, you can generally buy properties at public auctions for 25 to 35 percent below market value.

Billy Long

Anymore, most auction companies have a Web site and you can preview a lot of items.

The sellers in the auction have the power rather than the buyer. They set the date for the auction and the closing, they set the price and the property is sold as-is. The owner is the power-broker in the sale.

The spread supply had been a factor weighing on the Treasury market and when the 10-year TIPS auction didn't go terribly well, that compounded the issue.

Richard Owen

Auctions are just one more way Dell is becoming a single-stop source for computer buyers.

Auction results showed people are feeling safe to buy debt. Results were stronger than I had expected.

This is going to make it hard for eBay to win in Asia. It totally reshapes the landscape for auctions in Asia.

This is really the only formal black tie optional event that's held in Allen. We always have a lot of fun. A nice dinner, great opportunity for auction items and we have music for dancing.

There was some buying back in the early morning, but the market remains top-heavy, as market players are waiting for the results of auction of 10-year bonds this afternoon.

There was no robust auction that I could see. It's been a bizarre process . . . For all the effort and bravado, it's amusing.

There was very strong demand -- off the charts -- from the indirect bid -- about 65 percent, bigger than the 55.6 percent at the 10-year note auction in November 2005.

Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves. This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.

Britney Spears

I felt the correct thing to do was remove this item from the auction because I don't want any of you to feel misled.

Energy markets have proven to be volatile, unpredictable and trending dramatically upwards. This auction would expose consumers to all of the risks of the market.

Even if the auction does not go to where some people expected it to, the stock had a great run up. I just don't see a lot of upside at this point.

Bidders could get away from the auction for days and weeks at a time and put their energy elsewhere.

We teach our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that will benefit both the distressed homeowner and the investor. The troubled homeowner conserves some equity for a new start, and the investor realizes a reasonable profit. That's much better than seeing the owners lose everything, including their credit, in an auction on the courthouse steps.

We are so touched by all of the auction item donations we've received from people in the horse business. I am so proud to be a part of this industry and so thankful to all of the people who are participating in this auction.

Yields will have to go up for the auctions to do well. They are too low, I don't want to get in at these levels.

Yields at the auction came at levels that were not lethal to the stock market. Overall, it is somewhat encouraging for equities.

We're putting out feelers and will be watching Christie's closely to see what we can learn, ... But since holding auctions in China has to be done through intermediaries we will see how things develop.

We expect the white flags to fly over Madrid and Helsinki in the next two to three days. The auction will possibly raise about $35.5 billion, that's just around the U.K. figure. It may just top that.

We expect the auction to do phenomenally well for a couple of reasons,

There's relief around the industry that the final 3G auction is over, ... The next sale of licenses is in France next year and that has been factored into company spending because it's a fixed-fee beauty contest.

There's no panic, most of the auction was hedged by dealers.

Initially we turned a little lower after the auction results, but in the end we turned a little higher. It just seems as if the market has been able to recover partially after the losses of the last two days.

In all fairness to the auction companies most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

If somebody brings them, we'll auction them. We've got a license to sell pigs, too, but we don't. They're too messy and smell too bad.

It's an auction for everybody. We have just about every sport covered. There will be something for everybody at this auction.

It's like you're at an auction and no one wants to buy anything.