21.   What happened here is Iraq and the United Nations had a bad day on the commodities market and they bid the price up.

22.   Yet investors continued to bid stock prices ever higher.

23.   A few participants, including the investment house that sold it down Wednesday, were bidding the price up, noted one trader.

24.   But stock investors also were given a more fundamental reason to bid prices higher.

25.   Ignoring some cautions that the market could be getting ahead of itself, investors merrily bid stock prices higher.

26.   Investors, who had bid tech prices higher in the past few sessions, appeared to be migrating toward safer havens such as energy and health care stocks.

27.   Market players reacted to the good news by bidding prices higher.

28.   Stock investors, who like to see rates fall because it makes shares more attractive, bid prices higher.

29.   Technology stocks have suffered in particular amid the continuing belief that prices were bid too high last year and early this year.

30.   The rally was mostly technical, though analysts said a sharp rebound in U.S. stock prices prompted traders to bid prices upward in reaction to bullish inventory data.