They are selling risky assets such as stocks and bidding up the prices of safe assets.
Dozens of libraries with big budgets have since been bidding up the stashes in authorial attics.
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These days nostalgic baby boomers are bidding up prices of the stars of their youth, notably the Beatles.
Speculation that more industry consolidation may be at hand resulted in investors bidding up other players in the paper industry.
But the big deals are not there, in part because private-equity firms and hedge funds are bidding up prices too high.
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There was even an agreement in 2006 to work together to avoid bidding up the prices of energy resources in third countries.
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These are the respectable reasons for bidding up the price of junk.
In the US, light vehicle sales for 2011 year-to-date are up 20.2% from a recent low in 2010, further bidding up metal prices.
The markets react to this threat by bidding up the price of gold, and other commodities (like oil) that can serve as inflation hedges.
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Investors have been bidding up Baidu based on its promising outlook.
If they save energy and don't use all their permits, they can sell them and lots of buyers are bidding up the price of those permits.
Beyond bidding up team values to unheard-of levels, they're moving inexorably towards changing the rules whereby all teams have shared television and NFL-branded merchandise revenues equally.
Investors who aren't under Uncle Sam's thumb can move their money elsewhere, bidding up prices and driving down yields on other fixed-income assets in the U.S. and offshore.
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Essentially, the accounting measures require banks to take charges when debt investors are bullish by bidding up the bank's debt and gains when they lose confidence and sell.
Here there will again be no bidding up of wages.
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This could increase the number of potential bidders that might look at Colgate thereby bidding up its shares if the market starts to consider it is an acquisition target.
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By bidding up the work of an artist at auction, for example, not only does an adviser stand to earn a higher commission, but the market often adjusts upward to reflect that publicly recorded price.
Toby Syfret of Enders Analysis, a consultancy, argues that the BBC's heavy spending is in fact bidding up the cost of presenters and programmes, making it harder for Channel 4 and the other networks to survive.
With new consoles and game titles rolling out over the next several months, investors have been eager to buy the retailers, and have applauded the deal by bidding up GameStop shares 42% since the deal was announced.
Indeed, it would do so by actually contributing to the economy as personal accounts produce mighty rivers of savings and investment channeled directly into the economy, creating jobs and bidding up wages and incomes for working people now.
The sector became more popular over the past few years after catching the eye of a growing number of private-equity investors and entrepreneurs who, armed with cheap financing and dwindling options for high-yielding investments, started bidding up properties.
The low level of immigration relative to efficient levels illustrates that the national median voter views immigrants at current margins as being primarily competitive rather than complimentary, and fears that immigrants are bidding down their wages and perhaps even bidding up their house prices.
While most homebuilders like Toll Brothers (TOL) and Lennar ( LEN) have been bidding up ahead of their numbers and are trading at relatively high valuations, companies like Flagstar (FBC) are relatively inexpensive on a valuation basis and have seen their share prices cut by over a third.
The problem of aggressive bidding crops up mainly in auctions in which bids can be increased.
Not only is the bidding heating up on streaming video service Hulu, but it looks it could be a shoot out between a number of players.
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Still, investors have at least shown some willingness to give the top two U.S. automakers some rope as they execute their turnaround plans, bidding shares up in recent months.
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