12/23/05
Marketplace PM for December 23, 2005
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Declining home sales
Today, the Commerce Department said home sales slumped 11.3 percent in November, the largest one-month decline since January 1994. Marketplace's John Dimsdale has the story.
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Resurrecting Hilfiger
A private investment firm has agreed to buy the Tommy Hilfiger clothing company for $1.6 billion. Marketplace's Alisa Roth has more on what it may take to rehabilitate an ailing brand.
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Rebuilding Aceh, one year later
It's been nearly a year since a tsunami killed over 220,000 people in Asia. The hardest hit area -- Aceh, Indonesia -- isn't just looking to foreign aid to get back on its feet. As Marketplacea€™s Jocelyn Ford reports, Indonesia is finding that the horrific tragedy offered an opportunity to fundamentally change the way it does business.
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Out to sea
Dec 23, 2005
US imports are at all time high. If you cared to check, you'd find that 90 percent of all those presents under your tree came in on one of those massive container ships. Those ships are run by round-the-clock, and of often, round-the-year crews. A huge proportion of cargo seamen are Filipino Catholics who rarely get home for Christmas. Jen Banbury spent a day at a Staten Island port with one New Yorker who is obsessed with bringing Christmas to the people who bring us our toys.
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Weekly Wall Street roundup with David Johnson
Dec 23, 2005
Host Kai Ryssdal checks in with Dallas stockbroker David Johnson to talk about the week on Wall Street.
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The clock runs down on ABC / NFL partnership
The second-longest-running show in primetime television is about to change channels. Monday Night Football started back in 1970 on ABC. Since then, it's become a cultural touchstone, consistently ranking in the top ten during football season -- great for business for both ABC and the NFL. But this coming Monday the New York Jets will play the New England Patriots in the final Monday night game on ABC. Marketplace's Tess Vigeland took a look at the end of an era.
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Commentary: The working Poor at Christmas
Dec 23, 2005
People talk about holiday shopping like it's some kind of endurance test, or a battle. But that's probably less true for you the consumer, than it is for the person behind the counter. Commentator Moira Manion works two minimum wage jobs, six days a week -- and this season shea€™s feeling less than jolly.
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