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Marketplace's Steve Tripoli offers tips on how to protect your stock portfolio in case a recession hits. Diversification is key.

Marketplace's Sam Eaton talks to Madeleine Brand about the impact of the falling U.S. dollar in this country and around the world. Among other things, it should give an edge to American manufacturers.

The Fed meets Tuesday to discuss short-term interest rates. Marketplace's John Dimsdale talks about what he expects to see.

Officials with Facebook.com, the online social-networking site, are entertaining a billion-dollar purchase offer from Yahoo.com, according to a report in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.

The sudden rise is blamed on violence in Nigeria and new warnings that OPEC will have problems meeting global demand for oil in the next two decades.

Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday. They developed something called "mechanism design theory," which helps explain the decision-making processes behind business moves.

The Bancroft family, which owns a majority stake in Dow Jones & Company, says they'll turn down media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for the company. Dow Jones is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

A case in the Supreme Court today may determine the fate of millions of inventors' patents. A law says that an invention can't be patented if it is "obvious," but the definition of "obvious" isn't clear after decades of litigation. Now, many companies have filed briefs calling for a change to the rule.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about Google's initial public offering and the "Dutch auction" of company shares.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about a circulation scandal involving the publishers of Newsday and the Spanish-language newspaper Hoy.