The UK’s Debt Management Office confirmed it will hold nine gilt auctions in the third quarter this year and published the dates.
The auctions will be held as follows:
- October 2: a new conventional gilt maturing on Dec. 7, 2030 – October 10: 1 7/8 pct index-linked Treasury gilt maturing 2022 – October 24: 1 1/8 [...]

The government will auction in late October or early November the radio spectrum for mobile services based on the CDMA2000 standard, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) said.
The licence will have reserve price of 76 mln hkd, it said.
The auction will be the second in Hong Kong for assignment of radio spectrum since the [...]

A security guard stole thousands of pounds worth of electrical goods from Tesco’s Carlisle store and sold them on eBay, a court was told yesterday.
Graham Rothery, 28, of Scotby Close, Carlisle, admitted 12 charges of stealing from his employer and two charges of selling the items for cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act. He [...]

Starting in September, diamond trading service-provider Rapaport will hold monthly Rapaport guaranteed and certified diamond auctions.
The company said that the initiative was aimed at significantly increasing diamond-price transparency and providing trading opportunities for people across the industry.
“The transaction prices realised at auction will be published on the Internet providing a series of accurate and consistent [...]

All that remains of a 70-million year old Mosasaurus Baugei or Meuse lizard, a huge carnivorous reptile and the dominant underwater predator menacing the Earth’s seas 70-million years ago, could sell for as much as $400,000 on December 2, 2007 in Los Angeles as Bonhams & Butterfields, the premier West Coast auction house, brings an [...]

Bonhams has been appointed by Corgi to sell its archive of coveted prototype and “Number One” vehicles. The unique auction will take place on 3 October 2007 at Bonhams’ Knowle salerooms in Solihull, West Midlands.
With over 500 lots for sale the stars of the auction will be the “Number One” models” and collectors will be [...]

Livestock markets will be allowed to open from Monday following the easing of restrictions imposed after the two outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey.
Cattle, sheep and pigs can also be taken to shows under the new relaxed regulations but the 20-day standstill rules on moving livestock still remains.
Auctioneer Graham Ellis, of Stanfords, said Colchester’s market [...]

eBay is launching an offline, text-based bidding service in the UK, France and Belgium today.
The UK service costs 12 pence plus VAT per message and will be offered to users as an option when a bid is placed online. It does not require any additional downloads or up-front payments and can be used with any [...]

A decision by the Department of the Interior not to renew a 2005 IT lease with a minority contractor resulted in a warehouse full of new servers and data storage assets going to the auction block, according to Chris Rasmus of Rasmus Auctioneers, an online liquidator.
“It seams like a terrible waste of money,” noted Rasmus. [...]

The property slump in Galway has now extended to agricultural land — it has been revealed that two holdings which came under the hammer did not even attract one bid.
And it has been stated that the ‘heat has gone out’ of agricultural land sales across County Galway over the past six months.
Experts say that potential [...]