Wednesday, February 25, 2004 The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories. Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.

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Newscast Stories From Los Angeles: Matt Algeo reports on the implications of protecting the firearms industry from litigation. From New York: Big Blue has come out with a new rule on employees stock options that shareholders might be fond of as well. Judy Martin explains. From New York: Bob Moon looks at why many people are no longer considering themselves "investors" -- and what that means. From Boston: Rachel Dornhelm looks into the Internet sales tax line on some state tax returns. As people do more shopping online, states are trying to catch up on their lost tax revenue. From Paris: Genevieve Oger describes why wine drinking has declined in France. From Tokyo: The U.S. is trying to crack down on the global scourge of human trafficking. But as Jessica Smith reports, efforts may mean cracking down on one of its closest allies. From London: The WTO has just given the go-ahead for the EU to impose another set of sanctions against the U.S. Stephen Beard reports. From New York: The UN's plan to get fresh water flowing in developing nations by 2015 is not on target. And, that's bad news for public health and for the economies of many of those countries. Judy Martin has more. Features Film production leaving Vancouver over labor and costs Not too long ago, Hollywood complained that a good deal of the TV and film production it was doing was being outsourced to Canada. Now, some of that work is coming back. Carl Marziali reports.

UN criticizing Britain over plan to forcibly repatriate Iraqis Since the war in Iraq, Britain has been inundated with Iraqis seeking asylum. Now, reeling from the burden of this new wave of immigrants, Britain is sending many of them back to their homeland. From London, Marketplace’s Stephen Beard reports.