Bill Stone of PNC Wealth Management talks with Steve Chiotakis about why some banks want to raise capital to repay bailout money, anti-trust policy, and the effect health care reform might have on businesses.
Circuit City is one of many retailers to go bankrupt recently. Steve Chiotakis talks with Fortune magazine's Allan Sloan about whether retailers declaring bankruptcy is part of a cycle or a shift.
Teenagers account for $125 billion of annual retail expenditures. But that figure is expected to be lower this year as many teens learn to cope in a bad economy. Youth Radio's Asha Richardson reports.
Unemployment continues to plague cities across the country. But Wilcox County, Ala. has suffered severely due to the closure of a large lumber mill. Now one in four residents can't find work. Tanya Ott reports.
Reaction to the banks' stress test results wasn't as gloomy as some predicted. Kai Ryssdal speaks with ClusterStock.com's John Carney and the Wall Street Journal's Heidi Moore about the fallout from those tests.
The whiskey business is doing pretty well thanks to soaring sales in emerging markets like China. Scott Tong reports from an industry show in Shanghai.
The American steel industry announced 5,000 layoffs, including suspending production at a mill in Alabama. That move is leaving 1,700 workers in limbo. Tanya Ott reports.
Bill Radke talks to Jim Dunigan, Chief Investment Officer of PNC Wealth Management, about the market reaction to unemployment and where the bright spots may be in today's numbers.
More than half a million people losing their jobs in one month isn't a good thing by any interpretation. But Tamara Keith reports that, like a lot of things in this economy, it could have been much worse.
