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Sep 13, 2013

Marketplace Morning Report for Friday, September 13, 2013

The short-message social media company Twitter wants to sell many little slices of itself to the public. It announced its IPO idea in a tweet, of course. And as we approach the fifth anniversary of the day Lehman Brothers went bust, a look at the continuing global effects of the financial crash.

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For Twitter, the ‘P’ in ‘IPO’ may not be so public yet
by David Brancaccio
The company won't have to reveal company information publicly for quite some time.
Ireland five years after Lehman
by Christopher Werth
Five years after Lehman went bust, Ireland is still grappling with the effects of the global crisis.
The global echos of America’s financial mess
The effects of the 2008 financial crisis hit even disparate economies like Ireland, Iceland and Latvia.
Why Twitter is going public now
by Mark Garrison
For Twitter, patience was probably a virtue.
How did a former treasury secretary move markets today by doing absolutely nothing?
by David Brancaccio
False information from a Japanese newspaper moved investor activity.
The rising cost of infertility
by Sally Herships
It's getting more and more expensive to make a baby.
Favorite show cancelled before it got a chance to breathe? Wasn’t always that way.
by David Weinberg
Today, networks can spend millions on a series and still cancel it after two or three episodes. But that wasn't always the case.
PODCAST: A bit of wrong news sways the markets today
by David Brancaccio
False information from a Japanese newspaper affected investor activity today.

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