21.   But as the market has bid up bank stocks and the healthy economy wiped away loan problems, such bargains have been harder to find.

22.   But bond traders, far from bidding up dollar-denominated securities, focused on a small rise in commodities prices, after three consecutive days of decline.

23.   But companies that offer these jobs still find themselves bidding up their entry-level wage, to get enough workers.

24.   But even investors were having an odd reaction to the merger speculation, bidding up one and dropping the other.

25.   But increasing doubts about the content of a bailout plan have investors hesitant to aggressively bid up shares.

26.   But in this case investors may be bidding up the price of an American stock that is being hyped in Germany.

27.   But investors who are bidding up these shares seem to recognize no limits for the companies behind them.

28.   But such assurances were no comfort to investors, who, after bidding up Raytheon stock to a yearly high earlier this week, quickly dumped it Friday.

29.   Buybacks increase per-share earnings by reducing the amount of outstanding stock, leading investors to bid up the price.

30.   Buyers bid up Treasury prices, as a host of economic data showed growth slowing with little chance that inflation will pick up.