11.   As money rushes into an area, the stocks get bid up in price and small investors get in just as the market is peaking.

12.   Banks and investment firms from around the world bid up prices for London brokers and have subsequently decided they paid far too much for too little.

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

14.   Both companies also bid up prices for buying supermarket shelf space.

15.   Bondholders, who are always nervous about inflation, have already bid up interest rates this year in anticipation of that coming inflation.

16.   A jump in gold prices usually brings in excited investors who bid up the stocks.

17.   A sharp rise in borrowing would feed more money into the economy and allow individuals and companies to bid up the prices of goods and services.

18.   A strengthening ringgit encourages foreign investors to bid up stocks, as their investments stand to gain in their home currency terms.

19.   Brokers said investors are likely to bid up Philippine shares as they seek to invest in one of the only Asian economies where economic growth is accelerating.

20.   But as the auction for the Lexington, Mass. publisher grew intense last week, interested buyers bid up the price, sources said.