Whomever buys the Kings will pay a record price for an NBA franchise excluding an arena.
It set a new world record price for a work by a living artist.
The gas-station sale set a record price per square foot for a development site in Chelsea.
Despite the record price, there are some who argue that Mr Vengerov got a bargain.
Even so, that record price probably had much to do with the previous owner.
Sotheby's can now boast the record price at auction for any piece of sculpture, ancient or modern.
The drawings of an artist who never existed sold for a record price for art by a fictional character.
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"Regardless of recent crop price declines from record highs, nutrient prices remain very strong and supply remains tight, " Downey said.
Even the buyer, sushi chain owner Kiyoshi Kimura, who also paid out the record price last year, said the cost was "a bit high".
The privately-held business-class airline is reportedly unprofitable, which would not be surprising given the record price of fuel and the decline in demand for air travel.
It could even set a record price for comics in its condition grade of 1.5 out of 10 because collectors enjoy the unusual story of its discovery, Mr Zurzolo added.
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The previous record price for an ounce of gold was achieved almost a month ago, but there is renewed interest in the yellow metal as a hedge against depreciating global currencies.
Bill Gates, who doesn't spend much quality time in the art market, did buy a beautiful Winslow Homer for a record price, but this wasn't Alan Bond flexing his flabby muscles.
The sale to an anonymous buyer is a landmark moment for the London art market and establishes a record price for any Post-War work of art sold at auction in Europe.
"It is a world record for a Golconda diamond and a world record price per carat for a colourless diamond, " Francois Curiel, director of the international jewellery department at Christie's, told reporters.
Behind those two heavy hitters is German visual artist, Gerhard Richter whose piece, Abstraktes Bild, set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at 34 million dollars.
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There is also less pressure on prices from biofuels, a "big factor" in the 2008 price spikes, Mr Abbassian says, when a record high for the price of oil drove demand for alternative fuels.
The checker beamed, commenting that the stock price had reached a record high the day before.
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We could get giddy, watching the price of gold hit record after record.
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Despite the fact that the overall price sets a new record, Geffen snagged a decent deal on his new conquest.
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The Dow stands to set new highs if it passes the record closing price of 14, 093.08, established on Oct. 27, 2007.
Instead, unhinging the dollar from gold gave us more than a decade of debilitating inflation, catastrophic increases in the price of oil and record-high interest rates.
Everyone agreed that the record high price of oil was a worry, but the Saudis offered little relief other than to promise to increase production by 200, 000 barrels a day, which was in line with expectations.
Its drivers now have handheld Dell computers with touch screens to record orders, price changes and payments.
The record-breaking price for the portrait "Roberta Johnson Roensch" does not change the entire market for her work.
With food prices remaining stubbornly high near record levels, price swings and volatility have come to constitute a new normal in the commodities complex.
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