The trading frenzy swept away many of the important pieces from Indonesia to private collectors and museums.

Indeed, the trading frenzy has produced one of the most hectic and profitable seasons in recent memory for brokerage houses, which earn commissions from executing orders.

The trading frenzy has even infected the staid mutual fund world: investors are holding funds for less than four years on average.

The trading frenzy was not particularly pleasant for Mr. Seijas, who took a loss on the day.

The privatization of Saudi Telecom, at the beginning of 2003, shook the stock market's lethargy and set off a trading frenzy that has not slowed since.

Will he be part of the Knicks' core group next season, or one of a half-dozen chips to be dangled in another trading frenzy?

Mere rumors earlier this month that he was accumulating the stock of Texaco Inc. set off a trading frenzy in those shares in America.

Despite the trading frenzy, analysts contended that the economic fundamentals for both stocks and bonds remained positive.

His comment provoked a trading frenzy similar to that set off by Mr. Bernanke's reported conversation.

La Jolla, according to some investors, set off the trading frenzy.