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.
From Washington: United Airlines meets today with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or the PBGC. It's the government agency that insures retirement funds when companies - like Enron - go bust.
From Los Angeles: Here's some good news for this Thursday... 3,000 jobs will be opening up in Los Angeles-area ports. The reason? It's all part of a new labor agreement to handle a sudden boom in shipping.
From Washington: The dot-com bubble makes history - again. Following the collapse of the U.S. tech sector in 2000 - and the well-paying jobs that went away with it - Americans saw their overall income shrink for two consecutive years.
From Boston: If you've been meaning to make that contribution to the Kerry campaign, there's still time. But not much of it.
From Los Angeles: Oil is trading at $43 a barrel on fears that Russian authorities will shut down production at the country's largest oil producer.
From Washington: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission - or CFTC - reached a deal with a Shell subsidiary this morning. Coral Energy Resources will pay $30 million to settle federal charges that it attempted to manipulate the natural gas market and falsely reported critical information.
From Los Angeles: The Bubble is Back! At least that's what a new report is saying about Internet advertising.
From Los Angeles: Summer camp season is well underway and many kids are off practicing time-honored traditions like telling ghost stories, roasting marshmallows and catching poison ivy. While some things never change in the summer camp business, one recent start up is giving them a technological twist.
From Tokyo: The Philippines and Japan are talking about a free trade agreement because Manila wants to export not just more goods, but more people to the huge Japanese market.
From London: The work ethic is alive and well in Britain. According to a new survey, a clear majority of workers in the UK positively enjoy their jobs.
Features
Now John Kerry takes the stage ...
Tonight, when he addresses the Democratic convention, John Kerry would do well to think about his vulnerabilities-and downplay them, says commentator and writer John Micklethwait. Also, If you've been meaning to make that $2,000 contribution to the Kerry campaign, there's still time. But not much. As of Friday the Democratic presidential nominee will no longer be able to raise or spend private campaign donations.... Probably, that is. Marketplace's Amy Scott explains.
ESPN turns 25. Let's go to the highlights ...
ESPN turns 25 years old this year. Host Tess Vigeland talks to Marketplace Business of Sports commentator David Carter about how the all-sports network has evolved... for better and for worse.
The Google way of doing things ...
Google plans to hold its upcoming IPO in an unusual way. Host Kai Ryssdal finds out why and just how it'll work with Marketplace's money expert, Chris Farrell.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
