If today's auction of $11 billion of 30-year bonds also holds steady, many stock investors will feel less anxious about interest rates.

On Thursday the Treasury postponed a planned auction of 52-week bills and on Friday held an auction of 69-day cash management bills.

At its winter fund-raiser, an auction recently held at a Manhattan restaurant, the program raised more than $70,000.

These scholarships are funded with proceeds from the annual dinner and auction held each December.

Business suffered due to livestock auctions held closer to the where the livestock were originally produced.

Sotheby's, now the world's second-largest auction house, held its first auction in 1744.

And in nearly 30 of the approximately 230 weekly or monthly auctions held since early 1986, Salomon had bid for and acquired up to 50 percent of the securities.

One of the first papers of Milgrom (1979b) solved a long-standing open problem about how auction correctly aggregate private information held by the bidders.

The money comes from a fund set up after an auction held several years ago to get rid of duplicate rare coins from the museum's collection.

In the Arrow-Debreu theory, we are to imagine an auctioneer, who at a defined beginning of time, say, this morning, holds an auction covering all possible dated contingent goods.