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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

  • South Korea's President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a meeting in Tokyo last May. (Photo: KAZUHIRO NOGI/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    More trade trouble in Asia as Japan and South Korea argue over computer chips. Anger over France’s digital tax plans. A record fine linked to the opioid crisis.

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  • Cast members of NBC's comedy series "Friends"
    Warner Bros. Television

    The Fed chair all but confirms an interest rate cut. Boeing’s troubles show in its sales numbers. “Friends” goes from Netflix to AT&T’s new streaming service. The pitfalls of growing hemp on sovereign Native land.

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  • Jul 10, 2019

    Working 9 to 9

    A food delivery worker in Shanghai takes a rest. Chinese workers on average work 12 hours more per week than their American counterparts according to U.S. and China government statistics for May. Photo credit: Charles Zhang/Marketplace
    Charles Zhang/Marketplace

    Can changing zoning help with with housing crisis? African nations ready a new, massive trading bloc. Chinese tech workers push back against the grueling 72-hour work week as a matter of life and death.

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  • Kristen Stewart is held by Jodie Foster in a scene from the film 'Panic Room', 2002. (Photo by Columbia Pictures /Getty Images)

    The U.N. holds an emergency meeting over Tehran’s nuclear program. Brazil votes on pension reforms. Why panic rooms are the ultimate home luxury for today’s billionaires.

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  • Where are those prices in TV drug ads we were promised?
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    A judge blocks Trumps drug ad price rule. Will the Fed lower interest rates? How immigrants in the U.S. without authorization get healthcare.

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  • An employee of internet security company Kaspersky Lab has a microchip implanted in the area between his thumb and the index finger during a Kaspersky Lab press conference on biological, psychological and technological implications of microchip implants ahead of the opening of the 55th IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) electronics trade fair in Berlin on September 3, 2015.
    JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images

    Big spending deadlines are approaching in Congress. Bio-hacking is becoming big business. France opens a monument to monetary theory.

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  • U.S. technology companies will have to work out how to transfer data from Europe and comply with privacy rules.
    Omar Marques/Getty Images

    Facebook’s privacy headache grows. Why art collectors are borrowing against the value of their Picasso paintings. How the coffee industry is trying to go green.

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  • Jul 8, 2019

    Brew Hawaii

    Brew Hawaii
    jeremybrooks/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

    Deutsche Bank announces massive layoffs. Investors aren’t happy with the most recent, actually great jobs numbers. What happens when a “Hawaiian beer” is made somewhere else?

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  • This photo shows a Ford logo on a front bumper as Ford 2018 and 2019 F-150 trucks sit on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Complex on September 27, 2018 in Dearborn, Michigan.
    JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP/Getty Images

    Teens are choosing school over work during the summer. Older Americans are staying in their jobs longer. It turns out the “most American-made” cars might not be so American.

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  • A view of the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, western Germany. (Photo BORIS ROESSLER/AFP/Getty Images)

    Job cuts begin at Germany’s biggest lender. Greece votes for a new government. We look at the future of interest rates in Turkey.

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