Such honesty pleased investors, who started bidding up the company's stock again to as high as almost $13 a share.

Since the bank's problems became known, investors have bid up the company's stock in the expectation that it might be sold.

That pragmatism has convinced investors to bid up his stock to $50.75 a share at the close of trading on Friday, from $21.50 a year ago.

But investors, in furious anticipation, have bid up the company's stock to triple the price of a little more than a year ago.

Investors bid up the company's stock by $2.125 a share yesterday, to $20.125, for an 11 percent increase in the company's market value, to $272 million.

Investors focused today on the company's strong overall earnings, bidding up Ford's stock in a weak market.

The deal led investors to bid up Efficient's stock yesterday, with the share price climbing $10.69, to $23.06.

But Wall Street bid up the company's stock by $5.50 a share.

He said that investors had been bidding up Lilly's stock because of the strong products in its development pipeline.

In anticipation of the results, which were reported after the close of the market, investors bid up the company's stock.