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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

  • Jul 19, 2019

    Comic-Con turns 50

    A cosplayer makes her way to the convention center during Comic-Con in San Diego, California, on Thursday.
    Photo by Chris Delmas/AFP

    Will interest rates be cut more than the Fed is letting on? The new Toys R Us stores won’t be so much about toys per se. Comic-Con has come a long way from its humble, nerdy beginnings.

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  • Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has plans to send people to the moon.
    Blue Origin

    Trump floats a new head for the Labor Dept. “The Lion King” revives a massive franchise. Private companies are shooting for the moon.

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  • Ukrainian activists from different nationalist parties hold posters and flags as they take part at a rally in February. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

    Brewer AB InBev sells its Australian division. Ukrainian politicians use fish and frozen pizza to tempt voters. We celebrate 50 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

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  • Fewer than half of U.S. workers use their vacation days, a U.S. Travel Association survey says. Above, tourists sunbathe on the Magaluf beach in Mallorca.
    David Ramos/Getty Images

    Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax” is gone. Does the Fed really need to cut interest rates at this point? A manager explains why Americans don’t take their vacation.

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  • A man prays as Muslim pilgrims partake in the symbolic stoning of the devil at the Jamarat Bridge in Mina, near Mecca, which marks the final major rite of the Hajj on August 22, 2018.
    AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

    Home sales to foreign buyers fall. Voting on raising the federal minimum wage. Some Muslim leaders call for a boycott of the religious pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

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  • A wine cellar in Vevey, Switzerland. (Photo by Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    Interest rate cuts in Asia. Netflix goes for growth overseas. The Swiss are famous for chocolate and cheese. What about wine?

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  • South LA resident Olympia Auset started a produce stand three years ago and now wants to expand into a physical store.
    John F. Peters

    Summer gives way to stable markets. A look at the systemic problem of low African-American homeownership. An activist is opening up her own healthy grocery store where there is none.

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  • Democratic Senator and presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, wipes sweat from his face as he greets supporters after a speech at a packed rally inside the gymnasium at Clinton College, a historically black college, before a rally in Rock Hill, SC on June, 23 2019.
    LOGAN CYRUS/AFP/Getty Images

    The WTO rules against both the U.S. and China over trade. All this hot weather is cutting into productivity. Sotheby’s caters to sneaker heads.

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  • The Swedish flag is displayed in the capital Stockholm. (Photo by Luca Teuchmann/WireImage)

    The Nordic nation’s economic model faces strain. Amazon retreats in China.

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  • Cashing in on e-scooter excitement
    TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

    An uptick in retail sales and U.S. factory production shows vigor in the economy. G7 finance ministers take a closer look at Facebook’s global digital currency, Libra. And entrepreneurs in Philadelphia want to bring e-scooters to the city. 

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