Marketplace Morning Report
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Marketplace Morning Report
In less than 10 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on all the news you missed overnight. Throughout the morning, Marketplace's David Brancaccio will bring you the latest business and economic stories you need to know to start your day. And before U.S. markets open, you'll get a global markets update...
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A one-year trade truce
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have pulled U.S.-China relations back from the brink. China says both sides will suspend plans...
SNAP is "a really important, invisible piece" of the economy
If nothing changes before the weekend, most of the 42 million people on food stamps, or SNAP, will not get their November benefits as scheduled. The i...
You've heard of grass-fed beef. How about seaweed-fed beef?
Researchers figure livestock herds contribute between 12% and 20% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. That's mostly methane from the digestive pr...
A potential pullback in auto lender oversight
Bankruptcies appear to be mounting in the subprime auto lending business. This all comes as auto loan delinquencies are rising, and the price of new a...
What a homeowners insurance bill of rights could do
More than half of homeowners say their insurance premiums went up in the last year, according to Consumer Reports. The biggest culprits? Inflation, co...
Does the central bank have enough data to go off of?
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee starts a two-day meeting on interest rates today. Most of the government data the Fed usually considers wh...
The shutdown's about to get very real
The federal shutdown is already having intense effects on unpaid federal workers. But we could be approaching a tipping point. In a memo, the USDA say...
Why people see tariff-induced inflation differently
Price increases are price increases, and consumers will bemoan inflation no matter the cause, right? Maybe not so much. Research shows that consumers...
Getting down to the nuts and bolts of the trade war
Small businesses are feeling the squeeze as tariffs and material costs climb. Rob Lehmann is the founder of Fair Wind Fasteners, a supplier of nuts, b...
What new sanctions mean for oil markets
The price of a barrel of Brent Crude oil is just over $66 this morning — about 6% higher than it was before President Trump announced new sanctions on...
President Trump axes trade talks with Canada
From the BBC World Service: President Donald Trump has abruptly cut off all trade talks with America’s northern neighbor. Trump was responding to an a...
Federal funds to keep the heat on this winter are stalled
As the weather gets colder, many lower-income Americans will depend on LIHEAP, a program that helps them heat their homes. Receiving LIHEAP assistance...
Beef prices and the beef of tomorrow
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said cattle ranchers “have to get their prices down.” Trump also claimed that the high tar...
Parsing the impact of fresh U.S. sanctions on Russian oil
From the BBC World Service: In an effort to pressure Moscow to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine, the United States has announced new sanctions on Rus...
Cars, crypto, and Cuba
Earlier this month, Tesla unveiled cheaper versions of some of its most popular cars. Other automakers are also promising to discount EVs or roll out...
Spotify and Netflix join forces
Netflix is trying a new strategy to make more money: It's worked out a deal to stream some podcasts from Spotify, which have both audio and video. The...
Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack is costliest in UK's history
From the BBC World Service: Experts have estimated that the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover — which halted car production there for multiple weeks — ...
Federal funding pullbacks in JD Vance's hometown
The Trump administration has moved to axe many Biden-era green initiatives. One project impacted is in Middletown, Ohio — the hometown of Vice Preside...
Call it a silver squeeze
Silver hit an all-time high last week. Helping fuel that rally is a physical shortage; global demand for silver has been outstripping supply since 202...
Climate adaptation as part of the curriculum
Agriculture is notoriously susceptible to the whims of the elements. Farmers and ranchers can see their entire livelihoods turn on one bad hailstorm o...
When a cloud service that powers much of the internet goes down
There's been a major outage of Amazon Web Services, the Amazon system that does computing for other companies. The list of impacted sites and platform...
U.S. tries to block a global emissions deal for shipping
From the BBC World Service: A landmark agreement to reduce carbon emissions from global shipping is in danger of collapsing after President Donald Tru...
Expect a spendy but price-conscious holiday season
Retailers are getting ready for the most magical time of their year: holiday shopping season. Holiday spending is expected to tick up, though that's d...
Thousands in the UK take Johnson & Johnson to court
From the BBC World Service: A major legal claim has been filed in the United Kingdom against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing the firm...
A conversation with Nobel laureate Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr is a professor at Northwestern University, who — along with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt — won the Nobel prize in economics earlier thi...
Greece decides on a 13-hour working day
From the BBC World Service: Greece's government is voting on a bill authorizing private sector employees to work up to 13 hours a day, if both employe...
Contractors hit hard by government shutdown
Paychecks are grinding to a halt for federal employees as the government shutdown enters its third week. A 2019 law entitles furloughed workers to bac...
An old-fashioned way of prepping businesses for cyberattacks
From the BBC World Service: Chief executives have been urged to plan for computer security breaches by going back to pen and paper. The U.K. governmen...
Nobel economics prize winners focus on tech, innovation
This morning, the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics — three professors whose work centers on technological innovation and what helps economies g...
China's global exports boom amid renewed U.S. trade war
From the BBC World Service: Trade tensions are flaring as Beijing responds to President Donald Trump’s threats to tack an additional 100% tariff on Ch...
How the government shutdown will affect federal workers
The slow-moving train wreck we've been watching unfold for a week, has indeed wrecked: the government officially shutdown at midnight. Hundreds of tho...
A sunscreen scandal heats up in Australia
From the BBC World Service: Eighteen sunscreen products have been pulled from shelves in Australia because of safety concerns; testing showed they did...
Woman pleads guilty in multi-billion-dollar bitcoin fraud
From the BBC World Service: A Chinese national in London has pleaded guilty to illegally acquiring and possessing bitcoin in what's thought to be the...