11.   Traders had bid down the shares Thursday, when Fannie Mae reported lower-than-expected earnings.

12.   Traders therefore bid the dollar lower in Europe.

13.   Traders therefore bid up stock prices, but not by much.

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

15.   Wheat futures fell all the same because traders had bid up prices Wednesday in anticipation of a poor crop showing.

16.   With bonds in demand, currency traders bid up dollars so they could have greenbacks to buy bonds.

17.   But after the buying spree, traders bid up the yen to near its level in late Tokyo trading a day earlier.

18.   Some currency traders bid the dollar upward amid growing expectations for an interest rate hike.

19.   Traders bid up prices along with rising London stock futures, and a late morning rally on Wall Street added momentum.

20.   Traders had already bid up oil prices in anticipation of the announcement and when the news came, they took profits.