Cabinet sells for a record Â£19m
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A cabinet sells for Â£19m at Christie's, making it the most expensive piece of furniture sold at auction.
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Business & money: Britain's best-known Indian food brand is being sold to Associated British Foods in a deal thought to be worth more than Â£100m.
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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 1,200-year-old Anglo-Saxon penny sold for &#36;409,000 Wednesday, setting what the auction house said was a new world record for the most expensive British coin.
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LONDON  - A 1,200-year-old Anglo-Saxon penny sold for 230,000 pounds (&#36;515,000 Cdn) on Wednesday, setting what the auction house said was a new world record for the most expensive British coin.
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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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A portrait by Lucian Freud broke the record for a living European artist when it sold for Â£7.8m.
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ChristieÂs opened its week of art auctions in Hong Kong by realizing a record-breaking $67.9 million in its sales of Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art.
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Singer Adele's first album, 19, goes straight to the top of the UK chart in its first week on sale.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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Energy giant Shell announces an annual profit of Â£9.32bn - a record for a UK-listed company.
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Barbie in Midnight Red, dating from 1965, sold for a record 9,000 pounds 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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A hand-written, illustrated book of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record  1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on  Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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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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Online auction firm eBay says a first edition copy of a Harry Potter book could fetch up to Â£20,000.
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Nine records were set at the sale of Baroness Marion Lambert's photography collection at Phillips, de Pury & Company on Monday.
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book is expected to fetch up to Â£12,000 at auction.