Justin Ho

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

Todd Adams, who runs a stainless steel tubing supply company in California, told “Marketplace” on Monday about two threats he and other small businesses are facing right now: Potential shortages of materials and other goods, thanks to President Trump’s tariffs, and higher costs, also thanks to the tariffs. It wasn’t too long ago that importers were facing similar challenges. Early in the pandemic, you might remember when supply chains were snarled.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

Thanks to the uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s trade war over the last few weeks, we’ve seen investors pull their money out of stocks and sell off government bonds. Meanwhile, the corporate bond market — where big firms turn to fund day-to-day operations or big projects — has gone quiet. There’s one niche in that corporate bond market that’s making investors especially nervous: high-yield corporate debt. You might've heard of it as junk bonds.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Sean McHenry |Justin Ho |Kristin Schwab

The president’s executive orders calling for an end to DEI across the federal government is set to change the way tens of billions of dollars in federal contracts are awarded.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho

All of the volatility we’ve been seeing this week hasn’t only played out in stock markets. Bond markets have been all over the place, too, as we've been reporting. Bond investors have been trying to figure out how much money to pour into the safety of U.S. government bonds and whether those bonds are actually all that safe anymore. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department has been holding auctions to sell new government bonds to investors, as it often does.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Justin Ho |Caleigh Wells |Kai Ryssdal |Nancy Farghalli

Current stream: Carbon Sound - change to marketplace when marketplace.stream.publicradio.org is available Apr 9, 2025Universities issue bonds to compensate for federal funding cuts and companies rescind their 2025 revenue projections. Plus, benzene and the trade imbalance. Segments From This Episodeby Justin HoUniversities have long issued bonds to raise money, but the amount being issued has nearly doubled in recent years —and is increasing as government funding is paused.