But she'll have to keep improving, as her biggest challenge yet--keeping Microsoft and AOL from entering her online auction garden--looms on the horizon.
"In an open-IPO auction--as its name implies--any qualified investor can open an account and bid for shares, " says Gregory Hartmann , Hambrecht's general counsel.
EBay, the biggest single consumer-to-consumer auction-site, is worth 20 times as much as Sotheby's (in which Amazon, which runs its own auctions, recently bought a stake).
On Thursday, France sells the two- and five-year OATs (French bonds), while Spain will auction three-, five- and 10-year bonds, in a week of very negative net issuance.
This is a nexus of private-equity and hedge funds, money-market funds and auction-rate securities, non-banks such as GE Capital and new securities such as CDOs and credit-default swaps.
Then two collectors--Rajiv Chaudhri, a New York hedge fund manager bidding by phone, and an Indian collector who had flown to the U.S. for the auction--battled the price higher.
News Corp. folks wanted to hold an auction--there were five serious media suitors in line--but Saban says he favored identifying a buyer for whom the assets were the best fit.
The photograph -- which may never before have been seen by the public, RR Auction says -- offers a glimpse of the future wife of Prince Charles lying down, perhaps on a bed, wearing a light sweater or top.
Obama's plans to finance an ambitious clean energy agenda by imposing a de facto carbon-emissions tax in the form of an auction-based cap-and-trade system has set the stage for an epic showdown on Capitol Hill over carbon emissions and energy legislation.
After over-exposing themselves to structured-investment vehicles and auction-rate securities, treasurers want to be able to blame someone else if things go wrong again.
Christie's - the world's number one in the auction market - has agreed to co-operate fully with the US Department of Justice, and in exchange has been granted a "conditional amnesty".
The most expensive piece of Titanic memorabilia sold at auction - the 33-feet long design plan - is coming back to Belfast.
European stocks ended a bumpy session in the black Tuesday, underpinned by stronger-than-expected U.S. consumer-confidence data, a well-received Italian bond auction and hope that euro-zone policy makers will make progress in tackling the region's debt crisis.
No wonder auction-houses and flea-market operators fret that they may soon lose much of their business.
Unlike the name-your-own-price auction service at the US version of Priceline, GetGoing gives you the exact times of your flight in advance.
In the past few years there have been the supbrime-mortgage securities blowup and the auction-rate securities blowup.
Another possibility, says Robert Gordon, president of Twenty-First Securities, is "auction-rate preferred, " whose payout adjusts up and down with interest rates.
European markets finished lower, with the Stoxx Europe 600 down 0.4%, as a disappointing Spanish treasury-bill auction offset better-than-expected consumer-confidence data in France.
On Dec. 14, while he was riding Amtrak's Acela train from New York to Washington, he opened an e-mail that detailed problems in the auction-rate markets, which were seizing up because of the blossoming credit crisis.
He has written a memoir, "Threshold Resistance, " that tells about his career and a 9-month prison sentence he served in 2004 on an art auction price-fixing conviction.
Japanese bonds broadly finished the day down however, as investors took a step back before a 10-year bond auction on Tuesday and a 30-year auction on Thursday.
To see the system at work, look at auction-rate securities, a sort of long-term debt invented in the 1980s.
Over the past two years advertising-as-auction has spread out beyond keywords to display advertising, video and mobile making for a far more complex advertising environment where ads are auctioned across these multiple platforms.
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In the global art game, you can keep track of all the auction action at Artfact.com, the leading database of auction-sale results for fine and decorative arts, covering sales in five continents.
Auction-based platforms allow ad agencies and marketers to place advertising in real-time, when it appears most relevant to consumers.
Terence Collier is the marketing director of the Fasig-Tipton horse-auction house.
Prosper.com employs an eBay or auction-style model and lets potential lenders both determine the interest rate and who gets funded in a several-week bidding process.
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In the domain of derivative contracts like credit default swaps or auction-rate preferreds (which even George Soros didn't know existed) or complex collateralized debt obligations of mortgage-backed bonds, there was a "failure to know what isn't known, " and the ramifications for not knowing were huge.
But the Chiasso, Switzerland-based company has a serious purpose: It offers an eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )-style Web auction platform for security bugs.
Italy's short-term borrowing costs rose at an auction of six-month bonds, which were sold at a gross yield of 1.24%, up from 0.73% at a similar auction a month ago.
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