| Ritchie Bros. Continues to See Worldwide Participation in its ...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - April 2, 2007) - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (TSX:RBA)(NYSE:RBA), the world's largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, announces the results of three large unreserved auctions held last week. The largest was a two-day auction in Edmonton, Alberta that generated over CA$58 million (US$50 million) in gross auction sales - beating Company records for the largest Canadian auction ever held by Ritchie Bros. in more than 40 years of business. The other two large auctions were held in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas, generating over US$29 million and US$33 million in gross auction sales (respectively) - also breaking a number of Company records in those regions.
Ritchie Bros. continues to attract buyers from around the world to its auctions, including those who are bidding live and on-line, using the Company's online bidding service rbauctionBid-Live.
WoW: April 18 Auction reports
Today, we bring an update for this week's World of Warcraft global auction prices. In case this is your first time reading this, here's the lowdown: Curse-Gaming holds a weekly global Auction Report for WoW's servers to give the players a basic idea of how much the game's sought-after commodities are. Imagine this as WoW's equivalent to a stock market report, and you get the idea.
Just keep in mind that the prices listed are just a rough median - the item values will differ between realms. With that said, on to the list!
High Selling Consumables
FlasksFlask of Fortification - Global Value: 92G eachFlask of Relentless Assault - Global Value: 88G eachFlask of Mighty Restoration - Global Value: 60G each ElixirsElixir of Major Firepower - Global Value: 29G 16S 65C per 5(5G 83S 33C each)Elixir of Major Mageblood - Global Value: 28G 95S per 5(5G 79S each)Elixir of Major Shadow Power - Global Value: 18G 97S 50C per 5(3G 79S 50C each) PotionsMajor Arcane Protection Potion - Global Value: 30G 45S 25C per 5(6G 9S 5C each)Destruction Potion - Global Value: 30G per 5(6G each)Haste Potion - Global Value: 20G per 5(4G each) FoodSpicy Crawdad - Global Value: 40G per 20(2G each)Golden Fish Sticks - Global Value: 19G 80S per 20(99S each)Grilled Mudfish - Global Value: 18G 35S per 20(91S 75C each) MiscellaneousCobrahide Leg Armor - Global Value: 185G eachMystic Spellthread - Global Value: 115G eachSilver Spellthread - Global Value: 50G eachFel Armament - Global Value: 19G 50S eachArcane Tome - Global Value: 16G eachThe complete list awaits after the jump!
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ABN Amro Is `Disingenuous' on Bidding Talks, TCI Says (Update5)
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- ABN Amro Holding NV's refusal to meet with rival bidders to Barclays Plc before next week is ``disingenuous and disadvantageous for shareholders,'' according to London-based TCI Fund Management LLP. ABN Amro yesterday extended exclusive takeover talks with London-based Barclays for the next three days. The biggest Dutch bank said it will meet with Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Santander Central Hispano SA and Fortis ``early next week.'' TCI is urging shareholders to pressure ABN Amro's board at the annual meeting on April 26 to split up the bank. Investors will have to decide whether ABN Amro should become a unit of Britain's third-biggest bank, or be divided between the Scottish, Spanish and Belgian-Dutch companies. ABN Amro shares have risen 33 percent in the past month, valuing the Amsterdam- based company at 69.2 billion euros ($94.1 billion).
Role of US buyout firms in BCE bidding raises concern
MONTREAL -- CEO Michael Sabia may have opened up telecom giant BCE Inc. to a lengthy bidding war between Canada's biggest pension funds, but criticism of the potential role of powerful U.S. private equity funds is mounting. One of the potential bidding groups has the world's biggest buyout fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. as a minority partner and the other Providence Equity Partners Inc., another huge U.S. buyout firm in the same role. In the event BCE is taken private, Canadian pension funds would be passive partners seeking to bolster returns, while rapid changes at BCE would be dictated by these highly experienced and aggressive U.S. buyout firms that would aim to cash out in two or three years, several investors said Wednesday. .
Limited edition bear for auction
A Telford businessman has handed over one of the last limited edition teddy bears to be produced at his world famous factory to help raise hundreds of pounds for charity. Oliver Holmes, who owns the historic Merrythought factory in Ironbridge, has handed over the grey teddy bear to staff at Wrekin College for their charity auction of promises and gifts to be held on Saturday. The auction will raise cash for Medic Malawi to pay for the second phase of The Wrekin Orphan House in Malawi, Africa. A group of staff and students travelled to Malawi to build the first orphan house in 2005, after raising nearly £20,000. Read the full story in the Shropshire Star. .
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