1.   Although Salomon declined to comment, analysts at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell said in a report that investors bid for more than twice as many shares as were offered.

2.   Analysts surmised that investors had been bidding down the stock recently in anticipation of bleaker news.

3.   As investors hurriedly bid up auto stocks late in the day, auto executives clearly felt vindicated.

4.   Big BT investors have been bidding up BT shares in hopes the MCI acquisition is behind them.

5.   But in this case investors may be bidding up the price of an American stock that is being hyped in Germany.

6.   Colombian stocks were mixed as Bogota investors bid up Banco Ganadero SA and dumped food company Industrias Alimenticias Noel SA fell in Medellin.

7.   Coca-Cola Co. investors have bid up the stock a third since summer, lifting it to dizzying heights.

8.   Figuring greater demand for chips meant stronger computer sales, investors bid up shares of computer companies.

9.   Foreign investors bid for four times as many shares as the government offered.

10.   Foreign investors bid up banks on expectations the government will help them deal with the trillions of yen in nonperforming loans owed to bank-affiliated housing lenders.