Business news for Mon, 31 Dec 2007 & with word auction. 2 news.

British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco are expected to come head-to-head in the auction for Turkey's state-owned cigarette maker later this month

At the Copenhagen fur auction three weeks ago, Danish was hardly spoken. While the auctions are conducted in English, the dominant languages among the 300 or so fur traders, brokers and manufacturers assembled to bid for mink pelts, sable and chinchilla are Mandarin and Russian.