Tuesday, April 6, 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 New York: It's earnings season again. In the next few weeks we'll get a sense of how the year is shaping up, as companies report first-quarter earnings. Today two bellwethers: Alcoa and General Electric, are expected to announce healthy profits, followed by Yahoo tomorrow. From Boston: Millions of Americans - in addition to their paid work - spend many hours as unpaid caregivers to family and friends. A new survey suggests that care giving can get in the way of the job. From Washington: An independent review of the World Bank's investments in oil projects around the globe found these multi-billion dollar deals often produce big profits for private enterprise - but fail to reduce poverty. That finding's forcing the World Bank to rethink whether or not it should be in the oil business at all. From London: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called an emergency meeting of his ministers this afternoon to allay mounting public concern about the UK's immigration system. From Tokyo: Vote counting is just starting in one of the world's most massive elecions. 147 million people were eligible to go to the 600,000 polling stations spanning thousand of islands in Indonesia' s parliamentary elections. From Washington: Doctors, patients, drug makers and healthcare administrators gathered in Washington today to talk about the high cost of HIV/AIDS treatments. Features Ten Years After Genocide Today marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda. Almost 800,000 people were killed in the space of a hundred days. Before the genocide, Rwanda's principal export was coffee, generating half of the country's gross national product. Coffee production plummeted during the killings. But today, it's an incentive for reconciliation.

A Booming Job Market? The U.S. job market seems to be improving. Last week the Labor Department said more jobs were created last month than in any month during the past four years. But all job recoveries are not created equal, and some industries are still losing jobs. Web resource: Kerry promises Pennsylvania 433,000 new jobs