DOW HITS NEW HIGH

The Dow Jones industrial average hit another all-time (12,765.01) and intraday (12,779.03) high Thursday, its 29th record high since the beginning of October. 8

HOTEL FOR SALE

$8 million is the asking price for Ouray's historic Beaumont Hotel. It has hosted celebrities and dignitaries from around the world. Two presidents of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, spent the night there.

QUOTABLE

"If President Bush deserves blank-check trade negotiating authority from Congress with this record, then Paris Hilton deserves to be Girl Scout of the Year."

Alan Tonelson

U.S. Business and Industry Council, which argues against current trade policy and further globalization

DICAPRIO EYES ENRON

Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to produce and star in a film adaptation of New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools, which exposes the downfall of the Enron Corp.

It's not clear what character he would play.

Source: CNBC

CONCERT PRICES

7% Average increase for concert prices in past five years.

3% Average decline in concert ticket sales in past five years.

14,000 Number of concerts, large and small, in 2006, according to Goldman, Sachs and Co. - up from 5,000 in 2000.

Source: BusinessWeek