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VIDEO: Sales soar for Shell, sour for Scooby

Jul 30, 2010
This week: Profit reports from Speed Stick to Kelloggs, and the cereal facts your parents aren't telling you.

MID-DAY UPDATE: BP says the spill will cost $32 BD. And that's...

Jul 27, 2010
/**/ ... good news? Well, not as bad as feared. (Hope the Gulf can say the same.) Home prices up, but consumer confidence down. Big manufac...

MID-DAY UPDATE: June new home sales rebound 24 percent ...

Jul 26, 2010
/**/ ...And they're STILL at the second-lowest level on record. So there must be plenty of new houses on the market, right? Nope -- fewest i...

MID-DAY UPDATE: Why should you stress about Europe's banks?

Jul 23, 2010
*The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...

Kindle isn't kind to poetry

Jul 23, 2010
Former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins talks to Bill Radke about why electronic reading devices aren't well-suited to poetry.

VIDEO: No summer break for bad credit

Jul 23, 2010
This week: Killer earnings, Bad credit's not turning, climate issues still burning, and don't sit under a coconut tree.

MID-DAY UPDATE: Economic news bad. Stock prices good.

Jul 22, 2010
/**/ Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June; new unemployment benefit plans rose. Yet at this writing, Wall Street's jumping. What d...

Study: Managers still check email while on vacation

Jul 22, 2010
A study by Britain's Institute of Leadership and Management reveals that more than a third of managers surveyed say they work while on summer...