David Brancaccio

Two weeks ago, the business group The Conference Board released a survey that found the lowest consumer confidence since 2014.

Yet, yesterday, the New York Fed put out its reading showing some improvement in the mood.

Marketplace's Carla Javier reports.

The largest economy in Africa is South Africa, a country that since August has been trying to work with 30 percent tariffs for goods sold to the U.S.

Automotive and agriculture are sectors hit especially hard.

But farmers there are turning to China to buy more of the country's pitted fruits, nectarines, plums, apricots and more.

The BBC's Mo Alley filed this report for us.

And in Los Angeles, I'm David Brancaccio.

It's the Marketplace Morning Report.

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Immigrants are much more likely to start a business in the U.S.

than native-born people, but many will no longer be able to get a government business loan.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

The Small Business Administration will no longer allow green card holders, lawful permanent residents, to apply for its business loans.

This takes effect next month.

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer has details.

Now to the tech stocks losing nearly $300 billion in aggregate value yesterday on the realization that artificial intelligence can replace not just human workers but whole business models.

This after Anthropic released an evolved version of its AI that can follow through on tasks like vetting a legal contract or booking a business trip start to finish.

Stock in companies from Thomson Reuters that helps law firms to Salesforce to Expedia Travel fell hard yesterday.

I spoke to Susan Schmidt, Portfolio Manager at Exchange Capital Resources.