11.   Sooner or later, though, investors will demand higher earnings before they bid stock prices higher.

12.   Stock traders surprised even themselves Wednesday by bidding share prices up in unusually heavy trading.

13.   The Fed fears that in a too-strong economy, prices will be bid up.

14.   The valuation of those deals shows how rapidly prices have been bid up for banks.

15.   They bid prices down for stocks.

16.   They bid prices down for bonds.

17.   They bid prices up with abandon.

18.   These Internet issues soaked up some of the dollars that would otherwise have bid the prices of existing stocks even higher.

19.   Traders bid prices higher in anticipation that a fungal disease known as gray leaf spot will crimp yields in corn fields from Iowa to Ohio.

20.   Western news agencies picked up the report, and traders started bidding crude prices up sharply.