A view of the economy from the upper Midwest
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
“Marketplace Morning Report” is breaking down the overall picture of the U.S. economy by zooming in on different regions and taking a closer look. Marketplace’s senior economics contributor Chris Farrell reports from St. Paul, Minnesota, about what’s happening in the Federal Reserve’s Ninth District — which includes most of the upper Midwest. Also: Paramount Skydance explores a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, and markets anticipate a Federal Reserve rate cut.
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| 0:00.0 | Would you pay to see a movie about mergers and acquisitions? |
| 0:06.2 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. |
| 0:08.3 | Published reports today indicate a big merger of movie and TV studios is in the works. |
| 0:13.3 | Paramount Skydance is reportedly preparing an offer to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. |
| 0:18.6 | Marketplace is Nancy Marshall-Genzor is following this. |
| 0:20.8 | Paramount Skydance is home to household names like Paramount Pictures. Warner Brothers Discovery. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzor is following this. |
| 0:27.8 | Paramount Skydance is home to household names like Paramount Pictures and television, CBS, and Comedy Central. |
| 0:33.8 | Warner Brothers Discovery includes Warner Brothers Studios and television, HBO, and CNN. |
| 0:38.9 | The Wall Street Journal first reported the proposed deal. It says Paramount Skydance wants all of Warner Brothers Discovery. Warner announced in June that it plans to split into two media |
| 0:44.9 | companies, streaming and studios, which would include HBO and global networks, including CNN. |
| 0:51.6 | It plans to complete the separation by the middle of next year. There would be no |
| 0:56.1 | split if Warner agreed to be acquired by Paramount Skydance. Neither Paramount Skydance nor Warner Brothers |
| 1:02.1 | Discovery will confirm the deal, which would have to be approved by federal regulators. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace. |
| 1:10.4 | Warner Brothers stock is up another 10% this morning. |
| 1:14.3 | Well, looking here at this chart, the average 30-year fixed-rate home loan is down at 6.27%. |
| 1:21.3 | Gone for now are those 7 percenters. |
| 1:24.0 | Christopher Lowe is chief economist at FHN Financial in New York. |
| 1:27.2 | Obviously, the market expects the Fed is going to start cutting rates again next week. |
| 1:33.0 | But when those long-term yields come down, it means traders think it's actually appropriate to cut rates. |
| 1:40.9 | Tariff effects are mostly in the numbers. |
| 1:43.7 | They weren't as bad as expected. |
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