Marketplace Stories

The war with Iran throws a whole new set of variables into an already uncertain economy.

On Monday, bond traders weren’t exactly rushing for a safe haven.

Marisa Mender-Franklin wanted to start a flower farm. She just needed land.

Cora Lewis, a business reporter at the Associated Press, discusses the rising trend of using “buy now, pay later” services to pay rent.

Value meals used to be the domain of fast food chains like McDonalds. But now fast-casual places like Panera are entering "the value wars."

Data centers were one of the bright spots in a year that saw total construction spending decline 1.4% from the previous year.

The vast majority of clothing Americans purchase is imported. Kai Ryssdal looks at how one Los Angeles company does their manufacturing within the city’s garment ecosystem.

“[Consumers are] feeling full, they’re feeling poor, they’ve really just been depleted,” said one retail expert.

The private credit market has grown fivefold since the 2008 financial crisis, according to the Federal Reserve, and now sits somewhere near the $2 trillion-mark globally. In the last couple weeks, though, the market has gone a bit sideways.

New data on producer price inflation, or PPI, will be released on Friday. And while it’s not the inflation that faces consumers, it impacts decisions companies make about raising prices.