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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Would 50-year mortgages make it easier to buy a home?
President Donald Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte have floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage as a potential way to make h...
Even if the government reopens, what about all that economic data?
After 43 days, the government shutdown could end today. But there are still lingering questions: When will food stamps be distributed to beneficiaries...
Australia's spy chief warns of foreign hacker threat
From the BBC World Service: Australia is increasingly vulnerable to "high-impact sabotage" from hackers backed by China, according to Australian intel...
Tariffs to hit a dinner table favorite: Italian pasta
The Trump administration is moving to levy tariffs of over 90% on popular Italian pasta brands on “anti-dumping” grounds. We look at how the move coul...
No shutdown relief for air travel yet
The Senate passed a deal last night to end the record-setting government shutdown. But that hasn’t yet translated into relief for the beleaguered air...
What's with the quiet over commercial real estate lending?
Commercial real estate has been struggling in the years since the pandemic. Office attendance has risen, though not as much in smaller cities. And whi...
A potential end to the government shutdown
There’s movement in Washington toward ending the government shutdown. The Senate held a procedural vote yesterday. Seven Democrats and one independent...
China eases export controls
From the BBC World Service: China has lifted export controls on computer chips that are vital to car production, marking an easing of trade tensions b...
Gotta catch 'em all (as an investment)
The value of Pokémon cards soared during the pandemic, and some have climbed in value nearly 4,000% over the past two decades. For some, Pokémon cards...
Welcome to Day One of flight-mageddon
Starting today, the Federal Aviation Administration is requiring airlines to reduce flights at 40 airports because of the strain that air traffic cont...
When an AI data center moves in next door
Elyria-Swansea, a largely Latino neighborhood in Denver, has plenty of industrial sources for air pollution: a dog food factory, an oil refinery, a hi...
Skepticism and a civics lesson from SCOTUS
Yesterday, Supreme Court justices heard arguments and asked questions about whether an emergency powers law could be used by a president to overhaul i...
World leaders arrive in Brazil ahead of COP30
From the BBC World Service: The summit is part of an effort to show that the climate crisis remains a top priority, although some big names won't be i...
The rise of the private asset
The London Stock Exchange has launched a series of indexes to track private investment funds. "Private investment" is a phrase we've been hearing a lo...
Trump's tariffs get their day in court
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can use emergency powers to levy tariffs. The law in question doesn...
Shein opens a storefront in Paris amid investigation
From the BBC World Service: Shein is making headlines for more than its new brick-and-mortar store in Paris’s famed BHV department store. But the laun...
Why pay $50 billion for the headache known as Tylenol?
Kimberly-Clark’s stock closed down 14% yesterday after it gambled nearly $50 billion on a company called Kenvue, maker of Listerine, Band-Aids, and Ty...
How shifting tariff policy hits one Pennsylvania business
Oral arguments over the Trump administration's "reciprocal tariffs" are set for tomorrow, in a test over limits to a president's power to act without...
Starbucks stirs things up in China
From the BBC World Service: Starbucks is selling the majority stake of its business in China to investment firm Boyu Capital as part of a $4 billion d...
Are Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs legal or not?
That's the question before the Supreme Court this week. President Donald Trump has been declaring an emergency and then using emergency authority to i...
What hunger looks like in one state as SNAP starts to dry up
This past weekend, as the shutdown stretches on, funds for SNAP benefits began to dry up. The Treasury Secretary says payments could restart this week...
Stocks rise on heels of U.S.-China trade deal
From the BBC World Service: Markets in Asia rose in reaction to the outcome of the APEC meetings in South Korea as the U.S. and China stepped back fro...
Business leaders to Congress: End the shutdown
The government shutdown has now lasted a full month. Now, some business leaders — including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the...
Clues about where inflation might be headed
The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation measure, was supposed to be released today. But at day 31...
With Trump back in D.C., business talks in South Korea continue
From the BBC World Service: Chinese President Xi Jinping told leaders attending the APEC summit in South Korea of the need to deepen economic cooperat...
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...