11.   Foreign investors bid up shares amid optimism that recent gains in industrial production and auto sales foreshadow a strong recovery in the domestic economy and higher corporate profits.

12.   Handicapping the prospective merger field, investors bid up -stocks of a bunch of financial companies Monday.

13.   In addition, investors bid up shares of companies announcing stock splits today.

14.   In effect, the First Jersey investors were bidding up the stock price among themselves, but First Jersey was keeping the markups, the judge found.

15.   In addition, investors have bid up the multiples they are willing to pay for stocks over the last two years.

16.   In fact, the firms have been so successful that appreciative investors have bid most of the stocks way up.

17.   In the end, investors bid share prices higher on hopes that lower interest rates will help fuel consumer spending.

18.   In November, investors even bid up a company, Microtest Inc., that Gilder had mentioned in passing and was not recommending in any way.

19.   Initially, investors bid up MCI bonds because GTE has a higher credit rating than WorldCom.

20.   Instead of becoming skittish over the auction possibility, however, investors are bidding up broadcast stocks.