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Protecting Your Wealth
Key Tax Issues to Watch Post-Election Bischoff: These eight tax matters could see big changes — depending on who wins the White House. Whatever the outcome of the presidential election on Nov. 6, the next Congress and president will face a pile of unfinished tax business. Some of this stuff has been lying around since [...]
On Valentine’s Day this year, my 41-year-old cousin Ryan was making a batch of ice cream for his girlfriend at their home in Raleigh. Suddenly, a stroke felled him, the indirect result of a congenital heart condition many of us had stopped thinking about long ago. He died two days later. I struggled to think [...]
An insider of the secretive world of high-frequency trading is set to attack that industry Thursday on Capitol Hill, giving lawmakers a potential road map to address practices that critics say can put ordinary investors at a disadvantage and the financial system at risk. WSJ’s Michael Siconolfi explains how high-frequency traders undercut everyday stock [...]
High earners will be hit by tax hikes as the costs of ObamaCare kick in on Jan. 1. Here are four strategies for softening the blow. Basing investment decisions on forecasted tax changes is about as surefire a strategy as asking the Ouija board for stock tips. But whether the Bush tax cuts are allowed [...]
Think you have enough money stashed away in case of a job loss or emergency? Think again. Many rainy-day funds are failing to keep up with the still-grim reality of today’s job market and the higher prices for necessities like food and gas. And many savers aren’t making adjustments even after a life-changing event [...]
Marginal oil production costs are heading towards $100/barrel Bernstein’s energy analysts have looked at the upstream costs for the 50 biggest listed oil producers and found that — surprise, surprise — “the era of cheap oil is over”: Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates that cash, [...]
