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 […]