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In 2024, Kobe Bryant’s 2000 Lakers ring sold at auction for $927,000, the highest price ever paid for an NBA title ring, topping Bill Russell’s 1957 ring at $705,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Bankers leading an IPO typically want to match buyers and sellers for about 10% of the shares sold before opening trading to lessen volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

RBC analyst Tom Narayan projects some 350 million robots will be sold annually, at an estimated $25,000 each, by 2050.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Mis-Teeq sold more than 12 million records, were nominated for a Brit Award and won a Mobo for best garage act in 2002.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Among the most interesting of all the artifacts that were recovered was a large set of sixty stone balance-pan weights used by merchants to balance their scales as they measured out the goods they sold.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler