MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT

SHOW: Marketplace Morning Report (7:50 AM ET) - SYND

August 5, 2003 Tuesday

LENGTH: 77 words

HEADLINE: American Action Market claims to offer variation on Pentagon's
terrorism futures market

ANCHORS: TESS VIGELAND

BODY:
TESS VIGELAND, anchor:

And is this parody or just another prediction? The American Action Market claims
to offer a variation on the Pentagon's terrorism futures market. This version's
designed to predict White House actions. Traders can bet on things like which
country the White will threaten next and which White House staffer will resign
in disgrace. The market is the brainchild of a group of academics at MIT, Yale
and NYU. This is MARKETPLACE.