Bid price
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This refers to the financial term. For the pharmacological, see Bid (Medical).
A bid price is a price offered by a buyer/bidder when he buys a good. The bid price is usually just referred to as the bid. The bid price stands in contrast to the ask price or the offer, and the difference between the two is called the bid/offer spread.
The bid price displayed in most quote services is the highest bid price in the market.
In the context of stock trading on a stock exchange, the bid price is the highest price a buyer of a stock is willing to pay for a share of that given stock.
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