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  • Kai Ryssdal, live in five… four… three…

    Kai writes… Let me just tell you right out — I am biased. But I think there's really no better place in Southern California to talk about the…

  • A final thought on the way out of Commerce this Friday, about the topic du jour: The real economy and when it might get better. Since the expert…

  • Waiter, waiter! There’s a recession in my salad!

    New York grocer Zabar's busted subbing crawfish in so-called lobster salad. What's next, tilapia in the lox?

  • Aug 12, 2011

    A.I.

    A.I.

    The stock market's fastest electronic firms boosted trading threefold during the rout of August 1-10, Bloomberg reports. Gary Wedbush, executive…

  • John Hailer, president of Natixis Asset Management, tells Marketplace's Heidi Moore he doesn't think the stock market is an indicator of the U.S….

  • Banks are jumpin’ and the market is high

    Bank of America, Citi, Wells, RBS, up, up, UP! Shares in banking companies sashayed higher today … and no-one could really explain why. Many o…

  • Majority of execs expect business environment to deteriorate

    Executives who think business conditions will worsen exceed those who are optimistic, as illustrated by The Economist's Daily Chart. In May, a…

  • Most Americans think worst is yet to come for economy

    Americans' pessimism about the economy is at its highest this year, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll. Of adults surveyed, 68 percent said the…

  • The short end of the stick

    The volatility in global markets has claimed is usual victim: the short seller….

  • Aug 12, 2011

    Asia’s up

    Or most of it, at least. At noon in Hong Kong, both the Hang Seng and the Shanghai Composite were up more than one percent. The Nikkei was down…

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