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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from 2008 to 2012). This is a £100,000 prize awarded annually to the museum or gallery that had the most imaginative, innovative or popular project during the previous year. [11]

  3. List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia

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    Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$57.2 million in 2023). [14] [15] Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by ...

  4. History of Federal Open Market Committee actions - Wikipedia

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    The effective federal funds rate over time, through December 2023. This is a list of historical rate actions by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC controls the supply of credit to banks and the sale of treasury securities. The Federal Open Market Committee meets every two months during the fiscal year.

  5. Nobel Prize - Wikipedia

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    The capital of the Nobel Foundation today is invested 50% in shares, 20% bonds and 30% other investments (e.g. hedge funds or real estate). The distribution can vary by 10 percent. At the beginning of 2008, 64% of the funds were invested mainly in American and European stocks, 20% in bonds, plus 12% in real estate and hedge funds.

  6. SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF - Wikipedia

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    The SPDR S&P 500 ETF trust is an exchange-traded fund which trades on the NYSE Arca under the symbol SPY ( NYSE Arca : SPY ). SPDR is an acronym for the Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts, the former name of the ETF. It is designed to track the S&P 500 stock market index. This fund is the largest and oldest ETF in the USA.

  7. S&P/TSX Composite Index - Wikipedia

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    The S&P/TSX Composite Index is the benchmark Canadian index representing roughly 70% of the total market capitalization on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Having replaced the TSE 300 Composite Index on May 1, 2002, [1] as of September 20, 2021 the S&P/TSX Composite Index comprises 237 of the 3,451 companies listed on the TSX. [2]

  8. List of cases of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer - Wikipedia

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    New York State Attorney General at New York Foreign Press Center Briefing on 'Issues Facing New York' In addition to prosecutions and civil actions in the financial sector, former Attorney General of New York Eliot Spitzer pursued cases in both state and federal courts involving pollution, entertainment, technology, occupational safety and health and other fields in which New York plays a part ...

  9. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased.