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Meredith Garretson Morbey

Supervisory Senior Producer

Meredith is a supervisory senior producer at Marketplace.

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  • The Fed tried to boost the economy last week with monetary policy. Now, we're looking at fiscal policy.
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    Is a payroll tax cut coming? A CDC budget meeting in the middle of COVID-19 response. How the virus outbreak may interfere with medical school clinical rotations.

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  • Dow futures were up around 1,000 points, 4.3%, on Tuesday morning.
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    Reviewing the Dow’s deepest plunge since the 2008 financial crisis. Economic advice for retiree investors. Life under Italy’s total COVID-19 lockdown.

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  • An Italian state police officer at a checkpoint in Milan, Italy. The Italian Government has taken the unprecedented measure of a nationwide lockdown.
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    What’s behind the latest financial market gyrations. A closer look at Italy, where citizens woke up to an entire country on lockdown.

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  • Trading on Wall Street was temporarily halted early March 9, 2020 as U.S. stocks joined a global rout on crashing oil prices and mounting worries over COVID-19.
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    A sharp dip in stock prices pauses trading for 15 minutes Monday morning. Government bonds in demand, pushing the 10-year interest rate to a new low. COVID-19 challenges for emerging markets.

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  • Crude oil has seen its steepest price drop in decades.
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    Crude oil and U.S. futures plummet. The CDC has new guidelines for how to clean airplanes. And, with South by Southwest canceled, how Austin, Texas, businesses are responding.

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  • Oil prices Monday crashed the most since 1991.
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    Financial markets in fresh turmoil amid an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. Some European markets are now set to enter a bear market at the close of trade.

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  • The data from Friday's February jobs report was collected before the coronavirus news escalated.
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    February jobs report shows no signs of COVID-19. What a state of emergency declaration actually means. How the T-Mobile-Sprint merger could affect cheaper, prepaid phone plans.

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  • One business in the sanitation service says business is 50% busier than usual.
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    The stock market is not getting better Friday morning. Seasonal fluctuations in hiring to start the year. What businesses are doing to prevent outbreaks and avoid legal liability.

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  • Investors monitor screens showing stock market movements at a brokerage house in Shanghai on Thursday.
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    Stocks are down yet again amid COVID-19 uncertainty. China prepares to release its latest trade figures. Ahead of International Women’s Day, why there are so few female central bankers.

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  • A billboard paid for by former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, that is attacking President Trump and is displayed on the Las Vegas Strip.
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    How will COVID-19 be reflected in the jobs report? Michael Bloomberg spends half a billion dollars before dropping out of the 2020 race. What the employment contracts of 18th-century pirates can teach us.

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