How's that grocery bill looking?
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Grocery prices rose less than 2% in March, according to the latest consumer price index. The cost of some staples, including eggs, butter, and cheese, fell from spikes last spring. Certain produce prices moved in the opposite direction. In this episode, how the global economy affects your grocery bill. Plus: The war in Iran ripples through big banks’ earnings, fuel economy regulations soften the blow of high gas prices, and Kai visits Southern California’s Little Saigon ahead of a trip to Vietnam.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the program today, things that are happening in the economy while everybody is watching the war. |
| 0:09.1 | And we will start the latest set of stories from our series, The Age of Work, from American Public Media. |
| 0:16.6 | This is Marketplace. |
| 0:29.7 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl. |
| 0:30.7 | It is Monday. |
| 0:33.3 | Today, this one is the 13th of April. |
| 0:35.0 | Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 0:42.2 | The global news of the day, I'm going to guess you are up to speed on negotiations not happening. |
| 0:44.2 | Blockade happening. |
| 0:51.2 | Markets, having, it seems, grown accustomed to the whiplash and the misdirection, were mostly okay with it all. |
| 0:57.9 | Even oil, without too much argument, the economic bellwether of this war, up only a couple of percent for the global benchmark. |
| 1:05.7 | So in an attempt to separate the signal from the noise, we are going to spend the first part of the program today on the nuts and bolts. |
| 1:11.2 | The ways the economy keeps on grinding while geopolitics does its thing. And then as promised, we will get to the first of our Vietnam reporting. The big Wall Street story today is of the big banks, which are |
| 1:16.8 | going to be reporting earnings the next couple of days. Goldman Sachs started things off this morning. |
| 1:21.6 | Profits were up in Q1, almost 20 percent compared to the same time a year ago, thanks in part to the revenue it earned advising |
| 1:29.1 | companies on mergers and acquisitions and other kinds of corporate deals of which one should |
| 1:33.7 | say there have been many this year. But as Marketplace's Justin Ho reports, it is also likely |
| 1:39.5 | we're going to see some signs this week. The war is affecting bank earnings. There are a few ways that the war |
| 1:44.9 | can actually boost profits at big banks. For one, they do a lot of stock trading on behalf of their |
| 1:49.6 | clients. And over the past month, stock markets have been volatile. Increased volatility is oftentimes |
| 1:55.8 | very favorable for trading results. That's Gerard Cassidy with RBC Capital Markets. He says banks earn fees when they execute trades for their results. That's Gerard Cassidy, with RBC Capital Markets. |
| 2:01.9 | He says banks earn fees when they execute trades for their clients. |
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