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  • The Marketplace Daily Pulse is up today. The U.S. consumer – that beaten-down, bedraggled, hopeless character – seems to be getting a shot of opt…

  • The Marketplace Daily Pulse is down today on news that times are so tough for some residents in Maine that local hero – novelist Stephen King – …

  • The Marketplace Daily Pulse is down today on news that the number of metal containers coming off boats has dropped on the biggest shipping route …

  • The Marketplace Daily Pulse is down today, minus 68 percent, in fact. That's how far wealth has dropped for younger U.S. households in the past …

  • With the unemployment rate spending another month around 9 percent, we're looking at a number you can count on both hands: 10. That's how many ve…

  • For the folks on the Eastern seaboard still waiting for utility crews to fix their power lines after the recent freak snow storm — and for each…

  • There's news today that there will be no more "Running Of The Brides" and it has the Marketplace Daily Pulse running on borrowed air today. The …

  • In these austere times, when the Pentagon has to deal with new constraints on its budget, there's signs that the private sector is not cutting ba…

  • A new study out from Yale's Rudd Center shows that children and teens are more exposed to ads for high-calorie soda drinks than ever before. The…

  • Oct 28, 2011

    A new Saab story?

    There's a lot of talk about China investing in Europe these day. Now it looks like the road ahead for Swedish car manufacturer Saab might just be…