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OIL'S ROAD TO $150: Oil hovers around $130 a barrel and legendary oil man Boone Pickens is calling for $150 oil in the near future. What happens to the economy as oil continues to soar ever higher? Mary Thompson goes through the scenarios, sector by sector.
| PROFITING FROM SCRAP: The commodities boom means everything costs more. But it also means more profit, if you're in the right business. Scrap metals have shot up in tandem to double in less than a year, now sitting at $700 a ton. Jane Wells goes inside a scrap metal yard to see how the business of scrap is hotter than ever.
| RETAIL REALTY CHECK: Margaret Brennan tells the story of retail real estate, which could be a toxic mix of the woes that have befallen both real estate and retail individually. Strip mall weakness is a blind spot and California has been at the fore of consumer trends. Margaret goes behind the retail numbers to the front lines of the consumer slowdown.
| INDIANA JONES & THE BOX OFFICE BONANZA: He's back. It's been almost two decades since Indiana Jones has graced the big screen, but hold your breath no more, Harrison Ford returns as the epic adventurer in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" opening at 1201a Thursday. The word in Hollywood is that Indy could bring in the biggest opening weekend of all time, with Spiderman taking a backseat. Julia looks at why the new action movie is so huge for Paramount. Appealing to baby boomers and teenagers alike, it's a unique mix. The movie also puts the spotlight on the tenuous relationship between Viacom and Dreamworks, ahead of their contract expiring at the end of this year.
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