In 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph with a camera obscura, a “dark room” that anticipated the camera and required an exposure of several days.

As we settle into a new year and a fresh auction season begins, the question looms: can the major houses turn the tide? Adrien Meyer selling the top lot of the evening, Rene Magritte’s L’empire des ...

Copart's strong market leadership and online auction platform drive its revenue growth, supported by a 37.7% market share in the online automotive auction market. US Domestic Auto Production ...

This year marks the third in a row of declining auction sales, down 44 percent, or over $3 billion, from 2022—and the lowest total in at least a decade, excluding 2020, CNBC reported. Sales of postwar ...

Over the last several decades, whisky has emerged as an alternative investment asset class, albeit a rather controversial one. Concurrent with that development has been the growth of a secondary, $200 ...

Foreclosure auction volume in the second quarter of 2025 increased 19% from the same period last year and reached a two-year high point, according to Auction.com‘s newest Auction Market Dispatch ...

In 1989, as the art market roared, the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote deliciously about attending his very first auction, a marquee November sale in New York at Christie’s. He saw “finely tailored ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. BANGALORE, India, Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Online Salvage Auctions Market is Segmented by Type (Used Car, Salvage ...

An important — if often misunderstood — component of a healthy housing market is a well-functioning foreclosure marketplace that efficiently and responsibly recycles distressed properties back into ...