The phrase "amount of buying" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing the quantity or volume of purchases, but it is better to use more conventional expressions.
Example: "The amount of buying during the holiday season significantly increased compared to last year."
Alternatives: "volume of purchases" or "level of buying activity".
That is the highest percentage since April 1997, and it represents a substantial amount of buying power on the sidelines.
"We are talking about such a sizable amount of buying and volume goes up and stocks react strongly one way or the other," Mr. Bove said.
"We are seeing a large amount of buying in the retail sector, in the form of bars and coins," said a spokesman.
With a decentralized business culture that had left an unusual amount of buying power in the hands of individual store managers, Penney has been slow to reach customers with up-to-date styles.
On the biz front there has been a certain amount of buying frenzy: the specialty divisions are all eager for product, and a few also have pictures they're rolling out.
"Mothers, particularly in urban areas and towns, have a huge amount of buying power and are interested in what they can do to make a difference," said Vicky Rateau, manager of Oxfam's GROW campaign.
In case of CHP generation with various electricity consumers, if the amount of sold (surplus) energy exceeds the amount of bought energy, network utilities are often reluctant to pay any compensation, or spot market prices at most.
Wall Street has roughly the same amount of buy, hold, and sell ratings on Tesla, which means they have no idea what's going on.
As a result, it makes sense to get a certain amount of buy-in from the industry.
The FBI claims his sell orders were equivalent to the entire amount of "buy" orders placed by every other market participant.
Every meal in our house is well thought out and we spend a huge amount of money buying quality foods (local, season and organic).
