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: You'd think putting out a wildly successful series like Harry Potter would be every publishing company's dream... But it turns out there's a dark side to Potter's magic.
From Boston: The wild success of Viagra and similar drugs has spurred on a legion of copycats. In most cases, they are much less expensive herbal supplements, which promise to work the same way.
From Los Angeles: Are American schools holding back their brightest kids? That's the conclusion of a new study from the University of Iowa.
From Los Angeles: Two U.S. oil refineries are asking the Bush administration to lend them some crude from the country's emergency stockpile.
From New York: This week Morgan Stanley announced it'll pay $19 million to settle a handful of charges brought by the New York Stock Exchange.
From Paris: Boeing is officially inaugurating its Paris headquarters today. The American aerospace firm is moving into France...
From London: The Fed on Tuesday did as expected and raised interest rates. Investors were pleased. But the International Monetary Fund warns rate hikes across the globe could hurt homeowners expecting to pay lower mortgage rates.
From Washington: If you're in a low-income job and you've got a chronic health condition your out of pocket health care costs are soaring - even if you have health insurance.
Features
Hurricanes. hurricanes
You thought this hurricane season was bad? The worst may be yet to come. Meteorologists say that global weather patterns have shifted. They expect heavier hurricane seasons for another 30 years. That's scary news for people living in the southeastern U.S. - and for the folks who insure them. Marketplace's Dan Grech reports. Also, news of the recent hurricanes may make the Caribbean seem like a bad bet for vacationers this season. But our travel expert Rudy Maxa tells us it's all in how you play your cards.
More rate increases?
Now that Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate, will we see more rate hikes soon? Host Kai Ryssdal gets some input from Marketplace's money expert, Chris Farrell.
Pro hockey's uncertain future
Long before the most recent impasse with its players, the National Hockey League's future was skating on thin ice. Host Tess Vigeland talks to Marketplace's Business of Sports commentator David Carter about what it's going to take to keep the league from going under.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
