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.
From Los Angeles: At the request of federal health officials, many American companies are cancelling their on-site flu shots this fall.
From New York: A children's cable network -- Nickelodeon - has just announced plans to expand its presence in the retail world.
From Washington: A new study due out today on working families illustrates just how tough it can be - even if you have a job.
From Washington: The most recent survey of financial literacy among the nation's high school students showed that this year, for the first time since 1997, they reversed a steady decline in what they knew or were learning about money.
From Miami: It seems like oil news just goes from bad to worse.... Now Venezuela, the world's number five exporter, announced a huge tax hike on several foreign crude-oil ventures.
From New York: Today various groups from the textile industry plan to petition the government to place safeguards on Chinese textile imports beginning next year.
From Beijing: When foreign car manufacturers go to China, they don't bring their best technology, and that's bad for the environment.
From London: Millions of British people face poverty in old age according to a government report published today. The report says the British are saving far too little for their retirement...and the country faces an entitlement crunch similar to the problems plaguing social security in this country.
From New York: Was it two disasters or one, from a legal point of view? Jury selection starts this morning in the World Trade Center insurance case.
Features
Commodity or humanitarian aid?
We've been hearing about the more than one million refugees who have fled their homes in Northern Sudan to escape attacking Arab militias. These people are now refugees living in the dozens of camps along the border of Sudan and Chad. While aid organizations have been able to get food and tents to the refugees, wood - for cooking and construction - is in short supply. Megan Williams reports that's turning the stuff into a dangerously hot commodity at refugee camps.
Nobel economics
Stacey Vanek-Smith looks at how the Nobel winners' theories play out in the discussions of economics in the presidential race. Then, John Smutniak of the Economist explores the relevancy to the rest of us of the kind of economic concepts that are winning the award these days.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
