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Marketplace for Thursday, October 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014

Marketplace for Thursday, October 9, 2014

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Activist Investor Carl Icahn is going after Apple again, asking the company to buy more shares and more quickly. We ask the question: What does Icahn actually want? Next: A company called GT Advanced is in bankruptcy court Thursday, reeling from the casualties of its relationship with Apple. It had hoped to make glass for the iPhone 6, but Apple went with Corning instead. Finally: Lego announces it won’t renew a long-standing partnership with Shell, after Greenpeace used the toys in an animated video attacking Arctic oil development. Greenpeace, they say, in effect mugged Lego to make its point about the Arctic. 

 

Segments From this episode

The boom-and-bust story of a crop called guar

Oct 9, 2014
A plant took on an outsize importance in the fracking world and created huge price swings.

Ben Bernanke used an alias during the financial crisis

Oct 9, 2014
AIG lawsuit reveals former the Fed chairman corresponded as "Edward Quince."

Who is Carl Icahn and what does he do?

Oct 9, 2014
A former corporate raider looking to remold companies. His current target? Apple

Greenpeace used Legos to attack Shell. And won.

Oct 9, 2014
Shell-branded Lego toys are not much longer for toy store shelves.

Why women lag in winning federal contracts

Oct 9, 2014
Women-owned businesses win less than five percent of the government's contract work.

Export-Import Bank reports $675 million earnings

Oct 9, 2014
The government agency that gives loans to American exporters is raking in interest payments.

Activist Investor Carl Icahn is going after Apple again, asking the company to buy more shares and more quickly. We ask the question: What does Icahn actually want? Next: A company called GT Advanced is in bankruptcy court Thursday, reeling from the casualties of its relationship with Apple. It had hoped to make glass for the iPhone 6, but Apple went with Corning instead. Finally: Lego announces it won’t renew a long-standing partnership with Shell, after Greenpeace used the toys in an animated video attacking Arctic oil development. Greenpeace, they say, in effect mugged Lego to make its point about the Arctic. 

 

Music from the episode

Yet Again Grizzly Bear
Nobody Beg You Femi Kuti
The Coathanger Squarepusher