Text size Christie’s global sales in the first half of the year slid 23% from a year ago to US$3.2 billion as the economy caused sellers, especially of high-ticket items, to step away from the market. Yet Christie’s execs emphasized in a news conference on Wednesday that items that did come to auction found buyers, and that it is well positioned for growth from a continuing uptick in new and younger buyers and from more emphasis on online sales. “It’s not the same macro environment that we saw in 2021 or in 2022,” said Guillaume Cerutti, Christie’s CEO. “But in...