Marketplace Morning Report Stories

Overall inflation was up 0.3% from November to December.

Analysts don’t know what legal authority — if any — President Donald Trump can use to compel banks to cap rates at 10%, but they do think there will be negative consequences for consumers.

Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer says political instability in the United States now poses a greater global risk than China or Russia.

The FOMC hasn’t cowed to political pressure from the Trump administration to make drastic interest rate cuts.

A cloudy outlook for consumer demand is causing many business owners to limit their growth plans out of caution. But keeping growth in check can have upsides.

A team of high schoolers interviewed fire survivors in Southern California. Survivors remember what they lost and what they managed to save.

Retailers want to know if you’ll pay more than the next person for the same goods and services. And they’ll use data on everything from your eye movements to your walk to find out.

For many in Altadena with houses still standing after the Eaton fire, it has been a year of headaches trying to clean their homes and make them habitable again.

Pauline Gray’s house burned down in the LA fires. She lost everything. But she’s a planner — and determined to stay positive through the rebuilding process.

Some Altadena residents have already broken ground and laid the foundation for their new homes. Others have had to sell their property and move on.