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Thieves had noticed how much Chinese steel demand had bid up the price of scrap metal.

The rally is best explained by the ease with which speculators and industrial buyers can find funds to bid up the clearing price.

Investors have bid up Indian shares since the ruling coalition, the United Progressive Alliance, won the general election in May.

Companies looking abroad "have a little bit of a race to lock up the talent and will bid up the cost of that talent" .

In theory at least, this should bid up the value of nonmilitary methods of protecting U. S. interests overseas.

Those with only one child can afford higher fees, so they bid up the price of the best hagwon.

The money flooding in from willing foreign savers had bid up government-bond prices, lowering interest rates and lifting house prices.

Last spring, only a couple of months into the job, investors started to bid up the expected rate of inflation.

Japanese investors looking for tsunami profits quickly bid up the stock of ERI, which stands for Evaluation, Rating & Inspection.

Last week, like during SARS, investors' first reaction was to punish travel-related stocks and bid up pharmaceutical companies.

Prices would be lower because credit would not be competing with money to bid up these goods.

Since then, investors have bid up Sanyo's share price amid growing interest in battery technology and a broader market rally.

He next argued that if our price levels were being bid up, our competitive position in international trade would be worsening .

But higher rates attract inflows of capital, which both bid up the value of the currency and support inflation.

It might motivate private investors to bid up the prices for toxic assets that will allow banks to survive.

If they bid up the price higher than the market can bear, oil stockpiles will increase, which in turn will put downward pressure on prices.

Salaries for top performers are being bid up to unheard of levels.

If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market.

And perhaps more financially significant, advertisers won't bid up the prices of search keywords.

When speculators foresee a shortage and bid up the price, they are also helping to conserve the present supply.

Showing a 5% profit gain, Wal-Mart attracted investors who bid up shares 20% - making it one of only two Dow stocks in positive territory.

Investment dollars bid up the price of futures relative to spot prices.

In March 2010, state-owned companies bid up the price of one piece of Beijing land to 10 times the asking price, according to one analyst.

The holders of the extra money begin to bid up all prices and soon realize their overall purchasing power is falling.

Accusations have also been leveled that Chinese investors throw money behind young artists, then bid up their prices and cash out.

The price of that painting was bid up.

Investors bid up prices of U. S. Treasurys as they sought their relative safety.

Benson signalled the auctioneer quietly and kicked the bid up another thousand.

By buying CDS protection for Greek government bonds, investors bid up CDS spreads.

There is still time to Bid up the price.

Investors also sharply bid up their estimate of future gains in the yuan.

He kicked the bid up another thousand.

Investors had bid up shares of Yahoo in recent months, partly because of projections about the future value of its Alibaba holdings.

Bid up for a piece of furniture

The man signaled the auctioneer quietly and kicked the bid up another thousand dollars