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: Attention computer-geeks! Are you brilliant and unappreciated? Well Google is searching for you...
From Mojave, CA: This morning Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen hopes to make a cool $10 million upon the successful return of SpaceShipOne, a private spacecraft funded by the billionaire.
From Washington: The U.S. Supreme Court gavel raps in a new session today with several some business-related battles to settle.
From New York: Today FCC Chairman Michael Powell is throwing a coming-out party for Digital Television. Broadcasters like FOX, CBS, and HBO will be there.
From Los Angeles: We've all heard that the Internet played an important role in fund-raising for this year's Presidential candidates. But it may not be a two-way street.
From Los Angeles: Oil busted through the $50 barrier Friday... And those prices got the attention of global movers and shakers.
From Beijing: China's top finance officials sat down with their G7 counterparts for the first time Friday. In response to U.S. pressure to allow more flexible exchange rate, China repeated what it's been saying for years now: it will, in it's own time.
From London: A brokerage in Britain is launching the biggest libel claim in the country's legal history.
From New York: As the Presidential Campaign and the debates shift focus from war to the economy, the Bush Administration launches an effort to protect U.S. businesses from...piracy.
Features
Will Google crash?
A month after its IPO, Google's shares are performing better than many doubters had expected. But Newsweek's Wall Street editor Allan Sloan says the stock could still be in for a rough landing.
Meet the plagiarism police
If textbooks, computers and hot lunches weren't enough ... now schools have another annual expense. Hiring the "plagiarism police."
Monday, October 4, 2004
