Christie's eyes record sales in huge Asia auction
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Christie's is eyeing to break its HK$1.2 billion ($154.2 million) Asia sales record next week when it auctions artworks and jewelry from a region that is all the rage with wealthy international and Chinese buyers.
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At a Christie&#39;s auction held in New York, a guitar once used by the Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon, fetched a staggering $570,000.
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Germany's BMW , the world's  biggest luxury carmaker, said on Thursday that sales in Asia  rose 13.8 percent in 2006 to a record 126,949 vehicles and  reiterated its goal to hit sales of 150,000 by next year.
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Sept. 20 -- An auction of rights to name 10 newly discovered species of fish raised more than $2 million for conservation efforts in eastern Indonesia on Thursday night, setting a record for an event of its type.
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eBay Inc.  offered about &#36;530 million to buy the remainder of South Korean affiliate Internet Auction Co. Ltd. as it pushes deeper into Asia, saying key shareholders had accepted a 79 percent increase to an earlier offer.
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South Korea's trade surplus hits a record level in June, making an interest rate rise more likely at next week's policy meeting.
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The sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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Asian stocks raced to a record high on Friday as a weaker yen boosted Japanese exporters such as Canon Inc.  and a spike in oil prices pushed energy shares higher.
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The presence of Sothebyâs and Christieâs at the European Fine Art Fair has caused a stir among dealers who have long considered the auction houses their biggest competitors.
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TOKYO Honda Motor said Monday that it expected to sell a record 3.4 million vehicles next year, as demand for new models including the revamped Civic increases sales by 8 percent.
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SINGAPORE  - Singapore's exports expanded by 17 per cent to a record high last year, riding strong demand from China for oil and commodities and on sales of electronics and pharmaceuticals to the United States and European Union.
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Barbie in Midnight Red, dating from   1965, sold for a world record 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on Tuesday   as collectors from around the world gathered to bid for a piece   of a unique private collection of 4,000 Barbie family dolls.
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Business & money: Asian demand continues to lift commodity values as Vale contract heralds even more lucrative deals
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers held its largest sale to date in company history last week in Moerdijk, (Rotterdam), the Netherlands, earning over 51million (approx. US$68 million) in gross auction sales.
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New records were set on Thursday for  works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction  of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest  total since 1990.
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Art collectors have consigned artworks valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the November sales at New York's auction houses. Christie's and Sotheby's, the city's two most popular houses, say estimates for sales totals are the highest in almost 15 years.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.