INDUSTRY REPORT: Sotheby&#39;s plans November sale
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. almost quadrupled its guarantees to art collectors including Philip Berman&#39;s heir and Hester Diamond in the last year as it gathered works for a November sale in New York and overtook
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A 8ft-tall sculpture of a diamond is expected to raise around Â£6m when it is sold at auction in November.
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RISMEDIA, Dec. 29 - Low interest rates helped the market for existing single-family home sales to set the highest monthly pace on record in November, according to the National Association of Realtors.
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The US manufacturing sector expanded for the 18th straight month in November, according to a report Wednesday, outpacing analysts&#39; expectations.
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U.S. stock futures pointed to a slightly higher market open on Thursday as higher November sales from retailers including Target Corp. , and Limited Brands Inc.  boded well for the holiday shopping season.
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The pace of existing U.S. home sales  edged up in November to a 5 million-unit annual rate and the  median price fell from a year earlier, the National Association  of Realtors said on Monday.
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The heirs of murdered Italian designer  Gianni Versace are hoping to raise as much as $17 million from  the sale of art by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein from his New  York home, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
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Non-memory sale to go ahead next month
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A painting by Winston Churchill, which President Truman called one of his "most valued possessions" after receiving it as a gift from the British prime minister in 1951, will be sold at Sotheby's, the auction house said Saturday.
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U.S. new home sales fell a  steeper-than-expected 9 percent in November, but business  activity elsewhere perked up this month, according to reports  on Friday that showed pockets of strength in the economy  despite a housing sector meltdown.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- Records were set Thursday for works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian as Sotheby&#39;s opened its two-day auction of impressionist and modern art.
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NEW YORK - Bidding was fierce for a few big-name works at Sotheby&#39;s fall sale of Impressionist and modern art in New York Thursday evening, but others fell short of pre-sale estimates and about a fifth of the offerings went unsold.
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US sales of previously owned homes rose 2.7 percent to a record in November, making 2004 the best year ever for housing. Existing homes sold at a 6.94 million annual rate, up from a 6.76 million pace in October
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The vast, high-end Paris antiques gallery has planned a three-city sale this fall to auction 1,000 of its antiques with Christieâs.
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U.S. new home sales fell a steeper-than-expected 9 percent in November, but business activity elsewhere perked up this month, according to reports on Friday that showed pockets of strength in the economy despite a housing sector meltdown.
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Big estimates don&#39;t necessarily mean big prices. That was the lesson the art world learned at Sotheby&#39;s sale of Impressionist and modern art last night.
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(Detroit-AP) Dec. 2, 2004 - The nation&#39;s two largest automakers are reporting weak November sales and announcing plans to reduce production.