I cannot recall an auction season when two salesrooms were unable to sell their catalogue cover picture! Certainly, an overview of the results of four auction sales of Canadian art held in May and June shows rather lackluster prices with some obvious exceptions that, although limited in number, were the...

Would you phone your stock broker today and give him an irrevocable instruction to sell your $300,000 worth of shares of Company X 'at the market' on May 27, 2009 at 10:35 a.m.? No, I would not think that to be a prudent decision. So why would you deal with...