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MIDDAY UPDATE: Vatican financial transparency, NASA budget woes, and beer baths
Dec 30, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI is working to make the Vatican's financial operations more transparent amid a financial investigation involving its bank. The...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Groupon, unemployment, college admissions
Dec 29, 2010
Venture capital Groupon may raise $950 million from private investors to fuel its growth. This comes after recently turning down a $6 billion...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Consumer Confidence and Case Shiller
Dec 28, 2010
This morning we had two important indexes released: Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index and the Case Shiller index of home values. Despite...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Frightful weather on the East Coast and post-holiday recycling
Dec 27, 2010
The northeast corridor suffers a post-holiday blizzard, and travelers face canceled flights, trains and roads too dangerous to drive. The cold...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Looking ahead to 2011
Dec 24, 2010
Today we spoke to Jill Schlesinger, as we look forward to 2011. Stock prices are ending the year at their highest level since the collapse of...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Renting, credit cards, and buzzwords
Dec 23, 2010
Today, Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics released a list of 55 U.S. organized according to how cost effective it is to rent a home, rather than buy....
MIDDAY UPDATE: GDP up 2.6 percent, holiday shopping
Dec 22, 2010
U.S. Gross Domestic Product grew 2.6 percent in the third quarter. Stacey Vanek Smith spoke to Richard DeKaser, who explained while this is a good...
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MIDDAY UPDATE: FCC and the census
Dec 21, 2010
The first figures from the U.S. Census are out today. Eve Troeh looks at how the census population numbers will affect how federal funding will be...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Ernst and Young, Kinect
Dec 20, 2010
New York prosecutors may charge accounting firm Ernst and Young for its role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers. New York prosecutors are...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Public education, tax deal approved, nuclear energy
Dec 17, 2010
Marketplace host Jeremy Hobson spoke to Mark Yudof, President of the University of California. At a time when even private universities are...