Marketplace for Thursday, December 10, 2009

Segments From This Episode

• Cleveland restaurants serve up success

  by Marketplace Staff

  Despite Cleveland's problems with foreclosures and poverty, restaurants keep opening up and prospering. Why? Dan Bobkoff reports.

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• New Peeps store gets hopping

  

  The maker of Peeps, those little marshmallow chicks and bunnies, is opening its first store near Washington, D.C. Sabri Ben-Achour reports.

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• China-Taiwan move to thaw relations

  by Scott Tong

  Officials from Taiwan and China are meeting to set up a new round of trade talks. Scott Tong reports on the diplomatic and economic thaw underway.

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• The atmosphere at Copenhagen

  by Marketplace Staff

  There's more going on at the Copenhagen climate conference than delegates sitting around talking about climate policy. European correspondent Stephen Beard discusses the details with Kai Ryssdal.

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• AT&T to iPhone users: Cut back on data!

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  Many people who use iPhones in dense cities like New York or San Francisco have experienced dropped calls. So AT&T has a plan to tackle the problem. You could call it the pretty-please approach to customer service. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.

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• House debates financial regulation bill

  by Jeremy Hobson

  Fifteen months after Lehman Brothers collapsed there are still no new rules for the financial industry. But the bill for new regulations is finally on the House floor. Jeremy Hobson reports.

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• Lack of funding holds up probe of blasts

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  There have been two industrial accidents in Texas recently, but the board in charge of looking at these incidents isn't investigating either one. Why? Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

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