Marketplace Morning Report Stories

The June unemployment report is out today, and we’re looking at which jobs are in demand in our near-full employment economy. How can you tell which occupations are hard to fill? One way is to see where employers are raising salaries to attract new workers. Pharmacy tech, registered nurse, software engineer, data scientist — if […]

Hilton opened its 5,000th hotel last month, but this one wasn’t one of the luxury properties the company is known for. The new hotel in Oklahoma City is the first in Hilton’s new low-cost brand called Tru. It’s part of a trend happening across the hospitality industry as major hotels look to bring in millennials.  […]

As the Bureau of Labor Statistics gets prepared to release the June jobs report tomorrow morning, we'll talk about how the private sector is doing. The payroll processor ADP says that employers added 158,000 jobs for the month — a figure lower than expectations. Afterwards, we'll discuss what goes into a U.S. bank's "living will," a plan that lays out how it would unwind in the event of another financial crisis, and then look at some of the challenges that the commercial auto insurance industry is facing.

Rising home prices have led to higher consumer confidence, but will that translate into more consumer spending in the near future?

The number of children watching the Disney channel has dropped over the past three years. The reason? More and more of them are watching kids’ TV shows available online and bypassing cable altogether. How will the channel survive this era of cord cutting? Click the audio player above to hear the full story.

Elon Musk has some new competition. Volvo has announced that all of the models it launches after 2019 will have some form of electric motor. On today's show, we'll talk about what its new vehicles will look like and how Tesla might be reacting to the news. Afterwards, we'll discuss what we might expect to see from the Fed's latest meeting minutes, and then look at Oregon's new "Fair Work Week" law, which will require certain businesses to give workers a week's notice about their job schedules.