Berry-Hill and Rose, supposedly acting on behalf of the divorcing couple, bid on 27 paintings, submitting the highest bid on 21 of them, says Christie's, raising suspicions among observers.
Prices jumped on the bid with the bonds trading up to around 65 cents on the dollar in hope that bonds would be settled at maturity.
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One sign of others' potential interest is that only a handful of analysts are allowed to comment on the bid, because most have mergers-and-acquisitions colleagues busily working on deals for would-be suitors.
"All the companies were of stature, " says an executive who lost out on the bid.
"We don't make money on the bid-ask spread, " insists Kyle Vann, Entergy-Koch's chief executive.
Nearly all of the puts traded on the bid, suggesting the puts were sold.
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The airline also gave an update on its bid for rival airline Aer Lingus.
Next week, GM is expected to have a recommendation ready on which bid to accept.
Work on the bid began in March 2009 and demolition started in January 2010.
The Kuwaiti government embarked this year on a bid to reserve 25% of industrial jobs for Kuwaitis.
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Gloucester MP, Conservative Richard Graham, worked with the county council on the bid.
"We don't make money on the bid-ask spread, " says Kyle Vann, Entergy-Koch's CEO.
Russia made limited progress on its bid to join the World Trade Organisation.
To have the Prison Service decide on a bid by one of its own officials hardly smacks of fair competition.
The amount of opposition to the plans has persuaded the DfT to hold a hearing before it rules on the bid.
This all stems from Beechcraft, who lost out on the bid.
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Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell promised Thursday that the software giant will provide an update on its bid for struggling portal Yahoo!
For now Mr Aliev's regime, which is already working on a bid for the 2020 Olympics, can assume that its opponents offer no threat.
The NFL, which bans an owner from having ownership interest in other sports teams in NFL cities, votes on his bid later this month.
Mr Hunt told MPs that the contact between his office and the company had not affected his decisions on the bid in any way.
Mr Bowman passed on a bid for the Seagram assets, even though analysts expected Allied to fall irretrievably behind Diageo if it failed to buy them.
We are disappointed about that, but we would fail in our statutory duty if we granted a seven-year licence based on either bid in its present form.
Workers and management at Remploy had been working for months on the bid, and had the support of the city council and a number of voluntary organisations.
Advisors typically collect higher fees for trading strategies, brokers collect more commissions, exchanges earn a fee from each transaction, and market makers gorge themselves on the bid-ask spread.
Colombia's current finance minister, Juan Carlos Echeverry, said on Thursday that the country was focusing on a bid for the presidency of the International Labour Organization rather the World Bank.
In other words, whatever his views he believed in allowing independent regulators - and not himself - the final say on a bid which has become a nightmare for this Coalition government.
That move would allow the smart cheater to get long the calls for a slightly lower cost and make the call trades look like sales since they got traded on the bid.
In a statement, its management board said it "took note of the friendly character of this offer" and would meet again to give its opinion, following a report on the bid by independent analysts.
But the two companies have cooperated on this bid in order to unwind a complicated relationship, the result of an earlier acquisition, which left Comcast with a 21% stake in Time Warner's cable operations.
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