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: Scott Tong describes how threats of Hurricane Frances are affecting insurance company stocks.
From New York: With Nintendo permanently lowering the price of its popular Game Boy, Ashley Milne-Tyte looks at the war heating up over handheld video games.
From Los Angeles: Stacey Vanek Smith has details on Time Warner's huge new cash offer for MGM.
From Los Angeles: Brian Watt examines the growing turbulence over Northwest Airlines' new pricing structure.
From Seattle: As Microsoft unveils its own online music service Thursday, Jason Paur examines whether the company's market dominance poses a threat to competitor iTunes.
From Los Angeles: On this, the Internet's 35th birthday, Ethan Lindsey talks to one of the founders of the Internet.
Features
The employment numbers game
Businesses and investors are anxiously awaiting the monthly employment numbers due out Friday. But do they really give us the whole story on what's happening in the job market? Host Tess Vigeland asks Marketplace's money expert Chris Farrell what we should be looking for when we're sizing up the situation.
The convention and the anthill ...
Here's something to ponder: What do political conventions and that anthill in your backyard have in common? Commentator Micah Sifry says a lot more than you think.
Struggling artists
CBS's airing of the Latin Grammy Awards last night exposed American audiences to artists they've never heard before... even if they listen to Spanish-language radio stations. Marketplace's Julie Small reports on the difficulties faced by Latin musicians as they struggle to be heard in the U.S.
Thursday, September 2, 2004
