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Sabri Ben-Achour

Correspondent & Host

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Marketplace Morning Report

It's election season, which means talking politics at work

Sep 27, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

Why fewer funds for FEMA means slower disaster recoveries

Sep 27, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

Are we in for another logistics nightmare?

Sep 26, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

It's refinance time for many homeowners

Sep 26, 2024
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The history — and shaky future — of the generic drug market

Sep 20, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

When companies take a political stand

Sep 20, 2024
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Marketplace Morning Report

Can shame deter the ultra wealthy from using offshore accounts?

Sep 19, 2024
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Rates are on their way down. What's that mean for you?

Sep 19, 2024
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How online shopping is saving the economy

Sep 18, 2024
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What Fed rate decisions look like during election years

Sep 18, 2024
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Disney's killing it — at the box office and the stock market

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 5, 2019
The company's stock is up 40% since the beginning of the year.
Disney CEO Robert Iger visits Fox Business Network's "Markets Now" in 2013 in New York City.
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Why aren't businesses investing more in the future?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 1, 2019
Market turmoil trade tensions ... there’s a lot that’s been worrying businesses so far this year.
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The first rate cut in over 10 years: what a difference a decade makes

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 31, 2019
A global economic meltdown caused the last rate cuts. Today, the economy is far from that point.
Newspapers at a newsstand on Sept. 16, 2008, in New York City, at the height of the Great Recession.
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Trade showdown

In the U.S., China's economic slowdown starts to bite

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 24, 2019
Caterpillar has lowered expectations for the year, blaming tariffs and China's economic slowdown.
A worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, eastern China's Shandong province in 2017.
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How the moon landing helped launch Silicon Valley

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 19, 2019
It's all thanks to the computer chip.
Buzz Aldrin sets up the Solar Wind Composition Experiment during NASA's Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in July 1969.
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There's a "superhuman" poker-playing AI program. And it could tackle much more than poker.

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 16, 2019
Applications of that type of artificial intelligence could make their way not just into business but also military strategy.
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Where the Phillips is inflation?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 12, 2019
The Phillips curve, which describes an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation, just doesn't seem to be working lately.
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Why aren't more Americans working or looking for work?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 10, 2019
Labor force participation in the U.S. is said to be lower than that of comparable economies. There are a couple of factors at play.
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Trump wishes the Fed would push down the dollar, but that's not the Fed's job

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 28, 2019
Inflation and employment are the central bank's mandates. The exchange rate isn't.
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Stonewall 50

From throwing beer bottles to rainbow beer bottles

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 25, 2019
How Pride parades became street festivals with a marketing edge.
A pride flag waves at New York City's 2017 Gay Pride Parade, which some say includes too many corporate sponsors and politicians.
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