31.   BOND YIELDS RISE AGAIN Long-term Treasury bonds fell in price, as investors fretted over the stalled budget negotiations and a large supply of new offerings coming to market.

32.   A local brew pub has a new offering, Samuel Clemens Extra Pale Ale.

33.   A publicly held company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, HFS plans to raise much of the cash with a new offering of common stock.

34.   A Schwab spokesman said the firm frequently tests new offerings in a few branches and has not decided whether to offer the baskets to all of its customers.

35.   A recovery in corporate profits would help, as would a big return of new stock offerings and an upturn in employment.

36.   After a flood of new stock offerings last month, the market for such issues seems to have taken a chill.

37.   Broadcom and Brocade, both in the computer business, are among the stars of the two-year boom in new offerings.

38.   Burger King officially fired first Friday with a French fry freebie to highlight its crispier, tastier new offering.

39.   But as Paulak of the Gartner Group points out, only the affluent will be able to afford these new offerings.

40.   But confusion among investors was at least as big a problem with all the new offerings.