The spot market was, and is, relatively thin, and with spot material in relatively short supply, buyers had to bid up price to quite high levels to establish positions.
Now oil companies have simply bid up the price of RINs instead of buying ethanol.
Management capability is also identified as a reason investors will bid up the price of a stock.
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So when people are afraid, they bid up the price of investments that are perceived to be safe.
For why compete and bid up the price of labour when you can just grab some more off the street?
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Investors have bid up the price of US bonds since the financial crisis, and when bond prices increase their interest rates decrease.
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There are some folks who very much want to hold these specific assets and will bid up the price of the remaining assets thereby lowering their interest rate.
If they auctioned them off, they would sell for above par value, because the market would bid up the price of these securities until they yielded perhaps 0.02%.
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But the Chinese firm will be hard put to run Slavneft without local cooperation which makes some observers suspect it is really only in the auction to bid up the price.
All three names probably belonged to the same person, who was using multiple identities to bid up the price of his goods--a case of shilling that auctioneers punish by removing sellers from their sites.
So long as any investors are able to mix enough shares into a portfolio to diversify away specific company risk, they will bid up the price of those shares until they reflect only market risk.
It took the government to step in last year and get things moving by giving potential home-buyers cash to make down-payments on homes, cash for clunkers to buy new automobiles, cash to financial firms that was used for trading to bid up the price of stocks and commodities.
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Investors hungry for a piece of the action bid the price up before the stock began trading at noon yesterday.
For one, Genter says that even after many large-cap U.S. dividend-paying stocks enjoyed a sharp rally in 2011 even as the market sputtered, many of these names were not bid up to levels where price-to-earnings ratios became too extended.
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In that case, investors may bid the stock price up higher than cash flows from the business because the company owns an asset (gold hammers) that is worth far more than a typical hammer (the gold can be sold and traded for regular hammers with a huge surplus).
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These hot new dollars, fresh off the printing press, are buying treasuries and mortgage-backed securities so that their market price is bid up even higher (and therefore interest rates are even lower).
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Now, the company apparently plans to cut the price as well, by introducing a budget Leaf next year in a bid to come up with a more palatable sticker price.
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HFS's shareholders now three-quarters of Cendant's investors bid up the firm's share price by almost 2, 000% between its flotation in 1992 and December's merger.
There, speculative traders can bid up (or push down) the price of gold in the future, using borrowed money.
It is offering twice what Thomson's shares were worth before they were driven up by bid speculation, and double the average price multiple for the travel sector.
Now you could be faced with two demands: potential sellers could realize that they are under pricing their wares and dramatically raise the price, or potential buyers could quickly bid up a toy to something that approaches its fair market value or beyond, creating a bubble.
By the time new money and credit has passed through many hands, it has lost substantial value as prices are bid up, people find that their purchasing power lags behind consumer price increases, and their living standards fall.
Today there are no rules outlawing bid rigging, price fixing, and other insurance company practices that will drive up health care costs, and often drive up their own profits as well.
Using history as a guide, most tablet vendors will not benefit in a significant way over the long-term given price competition and the need to ratchet up marketing dollars in a bid to build their respective brand.
They left out works put up for auction that failed to fetch their reserve price the auctioneer's lowest acceptable bid for the work.
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