Auction for Cher's goods collects &#36;3.5M
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Of the dozens of vintage gowns and flashy costumes Cher put up for auction, a skimpy black number made of fishnet, rhinestone and patches of fabric got the highest bid.
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A guitar played by George Harrison of the Beatles was sold for &#36;567,500 on Friday, topping the bill at what auction house Christie's said was its biggest ever sale of show business memorabilia.
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Many of Johnny Cash's possessions were sold at Sotheby's, collecting $3,984,260 for the Cash family, more than double the pre-auction estimate.
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by &#36;3.06 billion in the latest week to &#36;829.08 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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For three weeks, it will sell songs for 49 cents and albums for $4.99--a move that could spark a price war.
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A batch of Elvis Presley's earliest  RCA recordings from nearly 50 years ago failed to meet the  minimum asking price at auction on Monday, but lesser keepsakes  from the King of Rock 'n' Roll fetched more than $6,000.
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A 1959 Barbie doll dressed in a zebra-print swimming costume and sunglasses has sold for nearly 3,000 pounds at an auction of around 4,000 of the toys.
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The popstar's childhood school report will be auctioned.
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Johnny Cash's instruments and possessions raise almost $4m (Â£2.2) after a three-day auction in New York.
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A bawdy 17th-century play billed as the rarest known piece of English pornography sold for &#36;88,300 at an auction Thursday.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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A cadre of buyout shops are expected to try to raise a total of &#36;45 billion for new European funds in the next year and a half.
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A rare violin is sold for a record figure, "well in excess" of the previous top price of $3.54m (Â£1.8m).
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Contemporary art collectors opened  their wallets on Thursday and shelled out $42.6 million at a  Valentine's Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and  British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against AIDS  in Africa.
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Arena Stage auctioned off a silk kimono from "M. Butterfly" on eBay last week for $637.76. It also unloaded two hand-carved thrones from "Camelot," getting $152.50 for the pair.
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LOS ANGELES  Â Cher said farewell, but not goodbye. Two-and-a-half years after the final show of her three-year "Farewell" concert tour, the Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-award winner announced last week that she'd signed on for a three-year, 200-show engagement at Caesars Palace.
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Some 60 objects that once belonged to silent screen icon Charlie Chaplin fetched over 100,000 Swiss francs (83,000 dollars, 62,000 euros) at auction in Geneva, the auctioneer Bernard Piguet has said.