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Daniel Shin

Producer

Daniel helps produce the daily “Marketplace Tech” show and podcast, and he’s interested in tech policy and ethics.

Latest from Daniel Shin

  • Mar 11, 2020

    How online retailers are handling the COVID-19 gold rush

    Inflated prices for hand sanitizer and surgical masks are showing up on online platforms like Amazon.
    Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images

    Like social platforms, they’re fighting misinformation and trying to quash price gouging.

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  • Mar 10, 2020

    Fiscal policy on the horizon

    The Fed tried to boost the economy last week with monetary policy. Now, we're looking at fiscal policy.
    Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

    Is a payroll tax cut coming? A CDC budget meeting in the middle of COVID-19 response. How the virus outbreak may interfere with medical school clinical rotations.

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  • Mar 10, 2020

    Markets turn up after Monday’s meltdown

    Dow futures were up around 1,000 points, 4.3%, on Tuesday morning.
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Reviewing the Dow’s deepest plunge since the 2008 financial crisis. Economic advice for retiree investors. Life under Italy’s total COVID-19 lockdown.

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  • Mar 10, 2020

    Inside Italy’s lockdown

    An Italian state police officer at a checkpoint in Milan, Italy. The Italian Government has taken the unprecedented measure of a nationwide lockdown.
    Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images

    What’s behind the latest financial market gyrations. A closer look at Italy, where citizens woke up to an entire country on lockdown.

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  • Mar 10, 2020

    In a world of remote work, virtual reality is still pretty much MIA

    A woman checks a Huawei 3D virtual reality headset during the Consumer Electronics Show in Shanghai in June.
    Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

    If working from home is not a perk but a requirement, will VR become a useful job tool? And will the “goofiness factor” get in the way?

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  • Mar 9, 2020

    Stock trading stopped in its tracks

    Trading on Wall Street was temporarily halted early March 9, 2020 as U.S. stocks joined a global rout on crashing oil prices and mounting worries over COVID-19.
    Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

    A sharp dip in stock prices pauses trading for 15 minutes Monday morning. Government bonds in demand, pushing the 10-year interest rate to a new low. COVID-19 challenges for emerging markets.

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  • Mar 9, 2020

    Crude oil’s crash

    Crude oil has seen its steepest price drop in decades.
    Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images

    Crude oil and U.S. futures plummet. The CDC has new guidelines for how to clean airplanes. And, with South by Southwest canceled, how Austin, Texas, businesses are responding.

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  • Mar 9, 2020

    31% oil plunge, virus worries send markets reeling

    Oil prices Monday crashed the most since 1991.
    David McNew/Getty Images

    Financial markets in fresh turmoil amid an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. Some European markets are now set to enter a bear market at the close of trade.

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  • Mar 9, 2020

    Can tech keep learning on track during COVID-19 spread?

    Over 3,089 people have been infected by the novel Coronavirus in Italy. The Italian government is closing all schools and universities until at least mid-March in a bid to contain COVID-19.
    Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images

    It depends not only on the access to online learning tools, but also that students and teachers are prepared for an online environment.

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  • Mar 6, 2020

    The jobs report before the COVID-19 storm

    The data from Friday's February jobs report was collected before the coronavirus news escalated.
    Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

    February jobs report shows no signs of COVID-19. What a state of emergency declaration actually means. How the T-Mobile-Sprint merger could affect cheaper, prepaid phone plans.

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