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Marketplace.

These are the last few days of our fall fundraiser and we're making progress toward our goal of 2,500 marketplace investors.

This is a different kind of goal for us, one that centers on your participation.

Whether it's your first ever

donation, you're able to chip in again, or you're starting or increasing a

monthly gift, every single gift counts. So please stand up as one of our

vital marketplace investors and do it by Friday.

Go to marketplace.org slash donate.

Today is one of those days where you gotta understand the economy to understand the headlines.

From American public media, this is market place. play. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdall. It is Tuesday, the very first day of October. It is Tuesday, today, the very first day of October.

Good as always to have you along, everybody. The two big news stories of this first day

of the third quarter are a reminder of something that can get lost in the hurly

burly of the every day. We live in a global economy. Look no further than the

price of a barrel of crude oil today for confirmation up more than 3% at

the close in New York that's after spiking 5% when news of the events in the Middle East

broke oil naturally the most global of all commodities.

Item number two, of course, the port strike

along the east coast of the United States.

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