There have been no business developments to explain the surge in private bid prices.
Further proof that the market's investors are not fully rational comes from bid prices.
Not all mobile phone licences can command such high bid prices, though.
True, Facebook adopted a Google-like 2 tier stock structure, possibly signaling an impending IPO, but this news hardly warrants such euphoric bid prices.
Industry leaders also worry about the future impact of cutbacks to public construction spending and construction materials costs that have been outstripping building bid prices.
But particularly on the low end, you'll likely see fans bid up prices.
The precious yellow metal bulls are right back in business as strong safe-haven demand and panic short covering put a strong bid into prices Friday.
And, if they have been underpriced, why investors, hungry to capitalize on that apparent past inefficiency, won't bid up prices until the undervaluation no longer remains.
If people would only cooperate not to bid asset prices above their fundamental values, then there would not be winners and losers when prices spike and crash.
Competition for these scarce resources will continually bid up prices.
This means that if firms try to generate bargaining power there is a mechanism for competitors to bid these prices up, and will actually benefit the region by bringing in new employers.
While there was plenty of news for traders to seize on Wednesday as a reason to bid up prices of stocks and other riskier investments, the scope of the gains in stocks likely reflected the degree to which many in the market had become negative in recent weeks.
One issue for investors, according to Mr. Rosenbluth, is that this two-year-old fund is thinly traded and can have a wide bid-ask spread (the difference between the prices potential buyers "bid" to acquire shares and the prices potential sellers "ask" to part with theirs).
Investors have been pretty pleased with profits so they have bid up stock prices.
He also noted that he could influence those bid and offer prices himself with very small orders.
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The cost of buying a second-hand Treasury at Fidelity is half the spread between bid and ask prices.
At one point, the Nasdaq screen which provides a list of bid and asked prices showed no Yahoo!
They have bid up the prices of Treasurys and pushed the yield on the ten-year note down to 4.7%.
Bonds issued by the Portuguese government failed to benefit from the safety bid lifting debt prices across the Eurozone.
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All the baker can do is bid up the prices of those goods, like steaks, that continue to be produced.
Likewise, when investors shower companies with capital and bid their stock prices to ridiculous levels, both the investors and the company suffers.
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Electronic trading has shortened settlement times, lowered bid-ask prices for frequently traded stocks, reduced brokerage costs and improved the flow of information.
Greater prosperity is creating tremendous wealth in the country, but that wealth also translates into higher rents as cash-rich Chinese bid up property prices.
While the municipal bond market is so frothy and has bid up all prices, sell out your weak issues and swap into strong credits.
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Subsidies, Mr Korth and his allies say, help big farmers to bid up land prices and make it harder for small farmers to survive.
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The new rules on stock quotations get at the ability of investors to get in the middle of the spread between the bid and ask prices quoted by market- makers.
But the most actively traded ones, where bid and ask prices are a penny off rather than a dime or more, are the best way to gain exposure to these markets.
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Yet even with this large subsidy, PPIP's chance for success is low because of the substantial gulf between the bid and ask prices on the toxic assets, and the reluctance of investors to partner with the government.
However, the main way that investors responded to the Fed blowouts of the era was not to bid up consumer prices or anything like that, but to get their holdings out of asset classes that brought dollar returns.
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