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 Detroit: General Motors has plans to begin cutting some of its 63,000 European jobs--that's got some overseas unions worried.
From New York: The New York attorney general's office has issued a court order to stop sales of so-called "freedom tower silver dollars". The coins have been marketed as government approved currency...
From Los Angeles: The Writer's Guild of America - the folks who put words in the mouths of TV and movie stars - has reached a tentative contract agreement with studios and networks after five months working without one.
From Washington: They say stock options are the currency of Silicon Valley. But tech companies are worried that regulators will put that to an end. The Federal Accounting Standards Board plans to require businesses to list stock options as expenses.
From Los Angeles: Many literature aficionados may have been surprised to see a government report making the short list for a National book award's non-fiction category. But the 9-11 Commission report, detailing the events surrounding September 11, has been a hot-seller..
From London: Finland has the world's most competitive economy, according to survey by the World Economic Forum. But in this country we can still take heart...the United States wasn't far behind and took second-place in the rankings.
From Philadelphia: Here's a little something to get under your skin this morning... literally. You can now get scanned like a box of cereal, like car with EZ-Pass whizzing by a toll booth. But for a serious purpose. Your health.
From Tokyo: "Now that you've PROMISED us money - please deliver it." That's the plea from Iraqi officials at the close of an aid summit in Tokyo.
Features
The book review game
Not that many Americans read for pleasure - but the ones who do, buy books. By conservative estimates, there are nearly 150,000 new titles every year hitting bookstores. A review can lift one book above the fray -- so you can imagine how desperately publishers want those spots. Kirkus Reviews, a trade journal known for tough, pre-publication reviews, has a new plan to cash in on that desire. Alisa Roth reports from New York.
Health, care, and debate
If you watched the presidential debate last night... you might have noticed healthcare took up a decent chunk of the discussion. Especially how to deal with rising costs. No matter who wins the White House...one thing at least is certain. The healthcare bill isn't going down any time soon. Here's our economist in residence Chris Farrell...
The end of Detroit?
General Motors said today it's cutting up to 12,000 jobs at its plants in Europe in a drive to get those operations back on the road to profitability. The cuts are a symptom of longterm problems facing GM, Ford, and Chrysler--overseas and here at home. Micheline Maynard, author of "The End of Detroit", says the Big Three have been losing market share in part because they don't get what customers want...
Thursday, October 14, 2004
