1.   But as the market has bid up bank stocks and the healthy economy wiped away loan problems, such bargains have been harder to find.

2.   Smaller markets eagerly bid to become the Doofusville Doormats or Podunk Pushovers.

3.   The currency markets are bidding the dollar down to historic lows, causing bond prices, and thus stock prices, to drop.

4.   Since the mark had been trading above that level, the market bid the currency lower.

5.   The market bid blue chips higher Thursday, but cashed in recent gains in the battered tech sector.

6.   The market bid blue chips higher, but cashed in recent gains in the battered tech sector.

7.   The market also bid up retailing stocks, which have been suffering a dull holiday shopping season and decreased consumer confidence.

8.   The uneasy market also bid other financial stocks and blue chips lower.