Auction
An auction house in Boston is auctioning off nearly 300 items related to the life and times of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, including a gold wedding ring belonging to Kennedy’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald.
A Petrobras-led oil consortium won the auction for Brazil's biggest oilfield with the lowest bid. Meanwhile, striking oil workers protested the auction and had a violent clash with police.
A gigantic egg laid by a now-extinct "elephant bird" has just sold at a London Auction for a staggering 66,675 pounds (approximately $101,813). The partly-fossilized object went for nearly double its estimated value.
Anybody looking to blow some money on some rather unique artifacts will have a great shot at Christie's in South Kensington, London on April 24. The auction house will be putting up a rare fossilized dodo bird femur and a sub-fossilized Elephant bird egg for eager buyers.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court has given Hostess Brands Inc. an okay to continue auctioning off its sweet goods and the factories that produce them, the Dow Jones Newswire reports.
Some pieces of U.S. athletic (and diplomatic) history are going to auction next month.
Former President George W. Bush auctioned a pickup truck for $300,000 in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Saturday. He's donating the money to the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that helps U.S. military families.
