| 2 Banks to Buy Back $7 Billion in Securities JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley agreed to repurchase a combined $7 billion in auction-rate securities as part of a settlement with regulators. nytimes.com |
Is This Seat Taken? In Front Rows of New Ballparks, No The Mets and the Yankees failed to sell about 5,000 tickets including some of the priciest seats to each of their first few games after last week’s openers. nytimes.com |
An Auction of ‘Nature’s Sculpture’: Rare Dinosaur Skulls The skull of a Triceratops sold for $242,000 and that of a Tyrannosaurid went for $206,000 at Bonhams & Butterfields in Manhattan. nytimes.com |
Strong Growth for eBay, but a Tempered Forecast The company is standing by its previous full-year earnings prediction, but says its second quarter could fall just short of analysts’ expectations. nytimes.com |
Contemporary Art Auction Reels in $190 Million The art market party goes on. On Wednesday night at Sotheby's, one could sense a mood of steady determination and alacrity never witnessed until this week in the contemporary art auction scene. nytimes.com |