The road less traveled (by bike)
Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As David Brancaccio winds down his tenure as host of the "Marketplace Morning Report," he's speaking with places of work he might have ended up at if he weren’t a broadcast journalist. On today's show, we head to Bike Oven in Los Angeles, a co-op that aims to give you everything you need to learn how to fix your bike yourself. But first: an examination of oil prices and potential tariffs on countries sending weapons to Iran.
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| 0:00.0 | The price of oil plunges with this U.S. Iran cease fire and is now only 40% higher than it was before the U.S. airstrikes began. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. Crude oil traded in New York is at $94 a barrel at the moment, down 17% in these early hours of a US and Iran sees fire. Dan |
| 0:23.8 | Coatsworth is head of markets at A.J. Bell in the UK. It's pulled back, but it's pulled back |
| 0:29.1 | nowhere near as low as it was at the end of February. So it's still got quite a long way |
| 0:36.2 | to fall again. And that's sort of suggesting |
| 0:38.4 | that markets are happy. But just because we've got a two-week ceasefire doesn't mean to say |
| 0:44.3 | this situation has been resolved. I'll tell you what, though, over or out of the oil markets |
| 0:50.0 | and into, you know, the equity markets, there is some kind of relief rally forming here. |
| 0:56.9 | One wonders if that early reaction is a bit overdone, given the fact that so much uncertainty |
| 1:02.3 | still swirls. |
| 1:03.3 | I think that markets still are slightly nervous, but as we've seen time and time again, |
| 1:13.9 | the market will need something new to latch onto, to give them the confidence to say, let's plow ahead. So there's a really big |
| 1:20.6 | question mark over what happens next in the coming days on the financial markets. |
| 1:25.9 | Dan Coatsworth at the investment firm, A.J. Bell. |
| 1:29.5 | President Trump said today he wants 50% taxes on goods from countries that might be sending |
| 1:34.7 | weapons to Iran. Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Genzor is following this development. |
| 1:39.2 | In a social media post this morning, President Trump said any country supplying weapons to Iran will |
| 1:45.3 | face a 50 percent tariff on, quote, any and all goods sold to the U.S., and there would be no |
| 1:51.1 | exclusions or exemptions. |
| 1:53.2 | Henrietta Trace, co-founder of Veda Partners, says Russia, North Korea, and China have all sent |
| 1:59.1 | weapons to Iran, but the tariffs are aimed at Beijing. |
| 2:02.8 | Trade with Russia is already quite limited in trade with North Korea's in the same boat. So if you're |
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