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Kimberly Adams

Host and Senior Editor

Kimberly Adams is the host and senior editor of “Marketplace Morning Report,” a roundup of the weekday’s top economic and business headlines, all delivered in under 10 minutes.

Prior to her role on the morning show, Adams was the host and senior editor of the Marketplace podcast “Make Me Smart.” She was also Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent, reporting from the nation’s capital on the way politics, technology, and economics show up in our everyday lives.

Adams’ reporting focuses on empowering listeners with the tools they need to more deeply engage with the economy, society, and our democracy.

She currently serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation, and is a previous board member and board chair of the National Press Club.

Adams is the former host of APM’s "Call to Mind," a series of programs airing on public radio stations nationwide aimed at changing the national conversation about mental health.

Previously, Kimberly was a foreign correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt, reporting on the political, social, and economic upheaval following the Arab Spring for news organizations around the world. She has received awards for her work from the National Press Club, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Religion Communicators Council, and the Association for Women in Communication.

Latest from Kimberly Adams

  • What GDP tells us about the economy
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    GDP growth for the latest quarter is expected to be robust, but that is due in part to some unique elements of the quarter.

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  • General Motors shares tumbled Wednesday as the company cited rising steel and aluminum costs as one reason for a smaller profit forecast. GM is not alone. Whirlpool, Coca-Cola and others are starting to tell the story of pain from the steel and aluminum tariffs in earnings reports, price projections and CEO interviews. None of this […]

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  • More Americans are quitting their jobs nowadays, according to the latest numbers out from the Labor Department. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) shows that in May, the “quits rate” hit its highest level in 17 years.  That means that in some sectors, workers feel good enough about the economy to leave a […]

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  • Trade fight. Trade skirmish. Possible trade war. We’ve been hedging our language around what the Trump administration’s multiple rounds of tariffs actually mean. But come midnight tonight, when $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods are supposed to kick in, all that talk of trade war starts to look a lot more real and a […]

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  • A heat wave has been frying parts of the midwest and northeast. It’s had millions of people blasting their air conditioning at full power. That is causing record surges in electricity demand in some places and will lead to some higher than expected electric bills for businesses and individuals. So, what’s this weather doing economically? […]

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  • Congress is out this week for its Fourth of July break. But rather than go back home to their districts, a handful of senators are in Russia. They are getting their own sense of what’s happening there ahead of President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a couple of week. Click the […]

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  • The Trump administration announced it is not imposing additional investment restrictions on China for now. Instead, the White House endorsed a plan working through Congress to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. It’s an interagency committee, commonly known as CFIUS, that doesn’t come up much in casual conversation, not even in […]

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  • Business leaders say President Trump’s travel ban goes against their values and hurts economically.

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  • Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. salutes the U.S. flag on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
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    The Department of Defense is expected to send a report on the structure of the proposed sixth branch of the military by August.

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  • Only about a quarter of public companies continue to include earnings predictions in their quarterly reports. Guidance is not required by law, and experts say it has become the tail that wags the dog. Once companies forecast earnings for the coming quarter, they manage their businesses to meet — or beat — those forecasts, which […]

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