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Erika Soderstrom

Associate Producer

Erika works with a group of extraordinary producers to chase business and economic stories heard on “Marketplace Morning Report.”

Latest from Erika Soderstrom

  • America's central bank is putting more juice behind emergency loans to help small businesses.
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    Stocks are up again today, despite new data about the misery of American small businesses. The Fed steps in to help finance small business loans. How commercial fishers are faring. The push for corporations to donate to fight COVID-19.

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  • A few car insurance companies are giving people a break, given that we're home a lot and not driving much.
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    Allstate says it’s proactively giving a 15% shelter-in-place discount to its car insurance customers. The call for the immediate cancellation of the debt of poor countries. The effect of the pandemic on black-owned businesses.

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  • Nineteen countries in Europe share the Euro currency.
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    The 19 countries using the euro currency meet to discuss financial aid. After news the British Prime Minister is in intensive care, the pound sterling is now stable. Dog obedience classes go online amid social distancing.

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  • When was the last time you filled your gas tank? Pictured: Gas prices in Los Angeles County hit the lowest point in a year.
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    Signs of COVID-19 cases perhaps peaking. No deal yet from OPEC to cut oil production. Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will produce 1 million face shields a week. New streaming service Quibi launches today.

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  • Startups don't have the cash flow or credit lines to deal with crises like big companies do.
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    “Small companies and a lot of us are getting a lesson in, ‘Risk is real,'” one business professor says.

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  • Dairy farmers have been opening up the tanks and dumping out milk.
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    Demand for milk is down in this shelter-at-home mode. Sink or swim for startups in this COVID-19 economy. How Nashville, which is still recovering from tornadoes in early March, and its musicians are faring right now.

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  • Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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    Tokyo and other key cities in Japan prepare for a state of emergency. Singapore unveils another emergency budget. Stocks rally as oil prices suffer a fresh fall. Can India help Trump with “game-changer” COVID-19 drug?

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  • GDP is growing but unemployment claims are still high in this two-tiered economy.
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    After almost 9 1/2 years of American payrolls growing month over month, there was a sickening drop in March. And the latest numbers don’t even capture the worst of it. Plus, the history of the U.S. census.

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  • Small business loan program starts today
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    Some big banks say they’re not ready for the crisis small business loan program set up by the $2 trillion stimulus. Jobs report numbers are out today. How do-it-yourself masks are being used. 

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  • A man wearing a handkerchief amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrives at a hospital in Mumbai on March 12, 2020.
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    India will receive $1 billion to buy medical equipment, almost half of The World Bank’s emergency fund. COVID-19 around the globe. Clubbing goes online as DJs stream sets from home.

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