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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

American Public Media Marketplace Newsletter: Analyst Whitney skips Congressional hearing on muni bonds

American Public Media Marketplace NewsletterAnalyst Whitney skips Congressional hearing on muni bonds

Who put all this spam in my Google search results? Commercial real estate rebounds



THE NUMBERS as of 12:35 P.M. EDT
DOW -15.89 Dow down; NASDAQ -9.44 Nasdaq down; S&P 500 -6.22 S&P 500 down
Top Story

Unrest scares tourists away from Jordan, Egypt
When protests hit one nation, like Egypt, some tourists avoid the whole region. Marketplace's Alisa Roth is in Amman, Jordan and she reports that tourism revenues in that country have slumped by a quarter in recent months.Read more

Al Jazeera English to launch U.S. campaign
The cable news network based in Qatar has been broadcasting developments in Egypt around the clock. It says that millions of Americans are being deprived of the opportunity to watch the network. Read more


TODAY ON MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT

Analyst Whitney skips Congressional hearing on muni bonds
Meredith Whitney famously predicted the collapse of several big banks in 2007. And after an ominous prediction about the municipal bond market, Whitney was called as the star witness at today's hearing on Capitol Hill. Roben Farzad of Bloomberg Business Week explains how Whitney made a name for herself, and the meaning behind her absence from today's hearing. Read more

Drought in China threatens global wheat supply
China is the world's largest producer and consumer of grain. But after severe winter droughts in the northern breadbasket region, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warns of a global wheat shortage that will drive up the cost of foods like noodles and cereal. Rob Schmitz has more. Read more.

London, Toronto stock exchanges announce merger
Officials from the London Stock Exchange Group PLC and Toronto based TMX group Inc. announced the merger today. Bringing the two companies together will produce the second largest mining- and resource-exchange in the world. Christopher Werth explains. Read more

Commercial real estate rebounds
Compromises between landlords and tenants are helping the commercial real estate market improve.Read more

MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT


And your MID-DAY UPDATE


Marketplace Morning Report co-hosts Jeremy Hobson and Steve Chiotakis go over all of this morning's news -- from the global impact winter drougts on Chinese wheat fields will have to House Republicans verus s the EPA. Check it out here.


TODAY ON THE MARKETPLACE TECH REPORT

Who put all this spam in my Google search results?
When you search for something on Google, are you getting dependable high quality results or are you getting cheap, flimsy, ad-bait junk sites? Read more


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