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 Miami: Facing corruption allegations in his native country, the head of the Organization of American States resigned late Friday after just two weeks in office.
From Los Angeles: Today, election officials Afghanistan are looking into charges of fraud in the country's first-ever presidential vote...
From New York: A new Russian-U.S. team is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station today. This comes just a week after a private flight into space made headlines.
From Paris: Kidnappings have created a niche market in the insurance industry.
From New York: In an unusual Sunday session, the U.S. Senate ground to a halt yesterday, failing to pass a new corporate tax bill.
From Alabama: Oil rig repair crews will be back in the Gulf of Mexico this week - trying to shore up pipelines
cracked during Hurricane Ivan last month.
From London: Oil companies are losing money drilling for new reserves because there is less crude out there to find.
From New York: This December a new televised awards ceremony will make its debut - this one's for the toy industry. Its organizers say it's designed to celebrate the world of play...
From New York: An American and a Norwegian will share the Nobel Prize in Economics. Edward Prescott and Finn Kidland are being honored for their innovate analysis of the economy's ups and downs, the business cycle, and how to stabilize it.
Features
Hedging on hedge funds ...
Hedge funds used to be just for the super-rich. Now, just about anyone can get in on the action.
Loving school
Sometimes, getting kids ready for school Monday morning is like trying to raise the dead. But in Kenya, millions of students can't wait to get to class. It's the first year primary education is free in the country.
Monday, October 11, 2004
