V is for volatility
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
A measure of stock market volatility called the VIX has been swinging up and down wildly since Monday’s investor sell-off. Thing is, the month of August has a reputation for volatility — and this week has certainly been living up to that rep. We’ll also hear more on the challenges facing Boeing and travel back to Kent County, Michigan — a swing county in a swing state — to hear how businesspeople there view the economy.
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| 0:00.0 | The is for Volatility. |
| 0:04.0 | For Marketplace, I'm Sabree, Infor David Brancaccio. |
| 0:08.0 | Volatility in a sec, first Boeing. |
| 0:10.0 | Today is part two of the National Transportation Safety Board's two-day hearing on quality and safety |
| 0:15.8 | in Boeing's manufacturing process prompted by the mid-flight fuselage blowout on an Alaska |
| 0:20.4 | Airlines plane in January. |
| 0:22.3 | Some new details have emerged on the challenges |
| 0:24.6 | facing the plane maker and one of its key suppliers. Marketplace's Nova |
| 0:28.4 | Safo has more. At the hearing, Boeing said it's come up with a redesign of its door plugs on Max Plains |
| 0:34.5 | to prevent them from being mistakenly installed on fuselages without bolts. |
| 0:39.2 | That's the cause of the Alaska Airlines blowout. |
| 0:41.6 | The hearing also provided accounts from Boeing employees |
| 0:44.0 | saying they were rushed at work and Terry George, a senior executive at Boeing's |
| 0:48.4 | fuselage supplier's spirit error systems, said his company has had trouble finding qualified workers post-COVID. |
| 0:55.0 | Five years ago, 95% of the foods that we brought in had sheet metal experience in assembly. |
| 1:02.0 | Now it's completely opposite. It's you |
| 1:05.4 | know a 5% as a result spirit has had to increase training. Today the hearing is |
| 1:11.0 | scheduled to focus on Boeing's and Spirit's safety and |
| 1:13.8 | quality management systems and on FAA oversight of the two companies. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm Novasafa for Marketplace. |
| 1:19.8 | Moving on to Wall Street, the best word to describe this week is volatile. Stocks in the |
| 1:26.6 | U.S. and Japan plunged on Monday, then rebounded partially, the S&P, the Dow, and the NASDAQ |
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