At one point, the Nasdaq screen which provides a list of bid and asked prices showed no Yahoo!

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Many ADRs are very liquid, others like those that trade over-the-counter on the pink sheets can be illiquid so the bid and asked spread are higher.

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Also, these bets were not placed in liquid markets that trade all day long at narrow spreads between bid and asked like sovereign bonds or multinational stocks.

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She faces a potentially difficult re-election bid next year, and hesitates when asked whether she'd vote for a health care bill that has a public option.

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Government contracts are now available online, and companies that bid for projects are asked to sign integrity pacts.

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We're pretty sure only three people asked for the full bid book and looked at it.

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So Jackson put it back on the block, explained the story, and asked for someone to meet the bid.

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Also there was Jean-Claude Biver, chief executive of Hublot and the man credited by many with rescuing the Swiss watch industry, who said that, if asked, he would leave Hublot and run the bid without asking for a salary.

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Last week, in a bid to sweeten the pot for its shareholders and creditors, who must agree on an unpalatable financial restructuring, it asked the British and French governments to extend its operating franchise from a mere 65 years to 999 years.

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