Marketplace AM for May 8, 2006

Segments From This Episode

• Sloan Sessions: NYSE’s second offering

  by Scott Jagow

  Newsweek Wall Street editor Allan Sloan looks at the impact of the New York Stock Exchange offering stock of its own.

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• Is Boink the next Playboy?

  by Marketplace Staff

  Sean Cole reports on a new magazine by and for college students about one of their favorite topics: sex.

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• Quarterly earnings run

  by Bob Moon

  This corporate earnings season marks at least the 10th straight quarter of double-digit earnings growth. Bob Moon takes a look at what's behind the trend.

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• Showtime and the Smithsonian

  by Ashley Milne-Tyte

  The Smithsonian Institute's board of regents today reviews a controversial contract that gives Showtime the right to block some independent filmmakers from accessing Smithsonian archives. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.

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• Rockin’ in the free world

  by Jeff Tyler

  Warner Brothers is scheduled to release a CD of protest songs by Neil Young today, weeks earlier than originally planned, possibly because Young was giving the songs away on his Web site. Jeff Tyler reports.

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