Marketplace Morning Report
Tuesday, July 29, 2003

The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories.

Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.

Broadcasts

Listen: 2:50 | 3:50 | 4:50 | 5:50 | 6:50 | 7:50 | 8:50
(times are a.m., Pacific Standard Time)

Newscast Stories

  • From Los Angeles: Jessica Dial reports that JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup have settled with the SEC over charges they helped Enron cheat investors.
  • From the Health Desk: Tanya Ott compares the difficult reality of Medicare with the bright prospects that accompanied its birth 38 years ago.
  • From Rio de Janeiro: Amy Radil has the latest on the squatters’ standoff in Sao Paulo.
  • From Los Angeles: BB Rivero has the story on the government setting up an intelligence futures market to increase the chances of figuring out political and financial events in the Middle East.
  • From London: Stephen Beard has more on a British firm launching the UK’s first Islamic brokerage service. The Fyshe Group will advise Muslim clients whether their investments comply with Shariah law.
  • From New York: Ashley Milne-Tyte examines how companies' use of call-monitoring systems to track employee productivity is affecting morale.
  • From New York: Judy Martin reports that tight budgets have prompted New York City's public libraries to encourage users to donate their spare change.
  • From Tokyo: Jessica Smith reports that Japan is hiking import tariffs on beef -- and U.S. beef producers aren’t happy.

    Features

  • UN program to give war widows market for handicrafts
    With every war, there are widows. Marketplace's Judy Martin describes how businesswomen, with the support of the United Nations, are helping widows in war-torn countries to earn their livelihoods.
    Trying to convince Japanese women to invest
    Tokyo's stock markets are courting a relatively untapped pool of individual investors: women. Jessica Smith reports.

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