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 Los Angeles: IPO Interrupted? When I say Google, what three letters come to mind... IPO? The search engine giant's Initial public offering has been much hyped and much analysed this summer. But reports emerged last night that the search engine could delay its launch as a public company.
From New York: Low cost carrier JetBlue is getting its own terminal at New York's John Kennedy Airport. The $850 million hub will be built with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
From Washington: Three sets of employment numbers are due before the Presidential election in November. So today's labor figure is is likely to get lots of political play and spin.
From Boston: Richard Scruggs, the Mississippi attorney who made a billion dollars in fees from tobacco litigation, has targetted not-for profit hospitals.
From New York: The Reverend Jerry Falwell is inviting ministers to a seminar next month to train conservative pastors how to talk politics without losing their tax exempt status.
From New York: As far as advertising is concerned, the Olympic flame is barely a flicker in many countries... This is the gist of a survey of advertisers released a week before the games begin in Athens.
From Beijing: Europe's largest bank today bought a major stake in one of China's largest lenders. But HSBC's deal with the Bank of Communications, in Beijing, is just the beginning.
From Tokyo: In Australia, politicians are in heavy battle over a free trade pact with the United States. The deal needs approval from the country's parliament to take effect, but some lawmakers are stalling by demanding protections for Australia's cheaper prescription drugs.
From New York: It's been a long week for Halliburton. The latest? Some former employees are suing the company over alleged accounting abuses.
Features
"I'll take the room with a view"
Families traveling on summer vacation have their pick of motels. Complimentary breakfasts, Cable, Jacuzzi tubs and chocolate kisses on pillows are all used to lure in business. But one motel in the tiny farming town of Monte Vista, Colorado has found a true hit: rooms with a different kind of view. Nancy Greenleese explains.
Making government a part time job ...
People in California are now mulling a part-time legislature. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said it would be a good way to save the state money. In other parts of the country, part-time legislatures are commonplace. Tamara Keith reports on what some lawmakers in Ohio do with their free time.
The Job Files!
Time again for a dip into the Job Files. Today we bring you many a teenager's dream job.
Ada Lee Halofsky produced today's Job File.
Friday, August 6, 2004
