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A French auction (Offre à Prix Minimal, formerly Mise en Vente) is a multiple-price auction used for pricing initial public offerings. In this offering, the firm announces a minimum (reserve) price .
A Dutch auction is one of several similar types of auctions for buying or selling goods. [1] [2] [3] Most commonly, it means an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price in the case of selling, and lowers it until some participant accepts the price, or it reaches a predetermined reserve price.
An Anglo-Dutch auction starts as an English or Japanese auction and then continues as a Dutch auction with a reduced number of bidders. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] A French auction is a preliminary sealed-bid auction before the actual auction, whose reserve price it determines.
While a traditional Dutch Auction starts at a high bid which will then decrease, a Reverse Dutch Auction works the opposite way as it starts at a low price and then gradually increases over time. [25] It contains a list of items that buyers want to procure and the price rises after fixed intervals until a reserved price is reached.
Polycom is about to shell out up to $250 million of its capital to repurchase its own common stock. The company has initiated a so-called "Dutch auction" to effect the buybacks. In such a tender ...
Single-price auctions are a pricing method in securities auctions that give all purchasers of an issue the same purchase price. They can be perceived as modified Dutch auctions . This method has been used since 1992 when it debuted as an experiment of the U.S. Treasury for all auctions of 2-year and 5-year notes.
The Mexican government is asking a French auction house to halt the planned sale of a collection of about 120 pre-Hispanic artifacts, saying some are fakes and others should be returned to Mexico.
OnSale.com has developed Yankee auction as its trademark in the 1990s. [7] A Yankee auction is a single-attribute multiunit auction running like a Dutch auction, where the bids are the portions of a total amount of identical units. [8] [9] [10] The total amount of auctioned items is firm in a Yankee auction unlike a Brazilian auction. The ...