Magna Carta fetches $21.3 million at Sotheby's auction
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A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, among the most important historical documents ever to hit the auction block, sold for $21.3 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's.
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US property and casualty insurers paid out $21.3 billion for hurricane damage, mostly in Florida, during the third-quarter, according an industry group called ISO.
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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
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A rare mint condition First Folio  edition of William Shakespeare&#039;s plays fetched 2.8 million  pounds (&#36;5.2 million) at an auction on Thursday.
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In its most expensive purchase ever, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to pay more than $45 million for a painting by the early Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna no bigger than a sheet of typing ...
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The Louvre Museum in Paris bought a  bust by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt on Thursday for a  record-setting $4.8 million, roughly 10 times the expected sale  price, Sotheby's said.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Jaret Wright gave himself a big birthday present, finalizing a three-year, $21-million US deal with the New York Yankees on Wednesday.
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A painting of the Houses of Parliament by Claude Monet, sells for $20m (Â£10.8m) at auction in New York.
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Christie's sold a Francis Bacon triptych  for 26.3 million pounds ($51.7 million) late on Wednesday, the  highest price paid at a European auction for a post-war work,  and narrowly short of the artist's record.
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Free agent Jaret Wright and the New York Yankees finalized a $21 million, three-year contract yesterday, announcing the deal on the pitcher's 29th birthday.
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The former home of William Clay Ford Jr., in Ann Arbor, Mich., is now on the market for $3.95 million.
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DALLAS - An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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A scheme to compensate WWII victims who had their assets seized by Britain has paid out more Â£21m.
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A painting of Jacqueline Kennedy with her two children sold for &#36;216,000 on Wednesday, the second day of a three-day auction of property from the Kennedy family homes.
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Strong sales for impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York's premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin's "Maternite (II)" bringing in &#36;39.2 million and Claude Monet's "London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog" &#36;20.1 million.
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A painting of water lilies by Claude Monet sold at a Sotheby's auction Tuesday for $36.8 million. It was the second major work by the impressionist artist to go under the hammer this week.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price.