Correspondent & Host
Sabri is a correspondent and host for Marketplace based in New York City. He has many, many plants.
The electric vehicle maker faces softening demand and intense competition on prices, and earlier price cuts have not sufficiently jolted sales.
“Now, it is leaner crews,” says one restaurant server, but a more stable income. Other states are watching how it plays out in the capital.
In a dozen states, restaurants and worker advocates are fighting over how — and how much — tipped workers should be paid.
What are they saying?
The numbers are sending positive and negative signs, making the future of inflation, and the timing of Fed interest rate cuts, uncertain.
Venture capital investments fell in the first quarter of this year. And that’s after the worst year for startup funding since 2019.
The Baltimore disaster may become the largest marine insurance loss ever. About 100 insurance companies are reportedly involved.
Containers carrying hundreds of tons of hazardous materials were on the ship, complicating the monumental cleanup.
“Haiti is now facing the prospect of living without any traces of a recognizable state for the first time in a long time,” says MIT’s Malick Ghachem.
There’s news that department store chain Nordstrom is looking to go private, after a previous attempt failed.
