Russia indefinitely suspended natural gas flows to Europe via a key pipeline hours after the Group of Seven agreed to an oil price cap for Russian crude—two opposing blows exchanged between Moscow and...
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Europe Girds for Energy Market Turbulence After Russian Gas Cut
Listen to article (2 minutes) Governments in Sweden and Finland offered billions of dollars of guarantees to utilities to prevent a meltdown in energy trading when markets open Monday after Russia shu...
Compounding a disastrous year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency: IRS proposes controversial new question about digital assets
The Internal Revenue Service could have a potential head-scratcher of a question about your crypto investments and what’s taxable, according to a major accountants’ association. For two years, the IRS...
Wells Fargo Fined $22 Million for Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation
Wells Fargo & Co. was fined more than $22 million by the U.S. Labor Department for allegedly firing a senior manager in its commercial banking unit after the employee reported concerns about misco...
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data on Website
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its w...
Celebrity Medicare Sales Pitches Are Toned Down After Scrutiny
If it’s football season, you can count on seeing Joe Namath on television, along with William Shatner and Jimmie “J J” Walker. They are the most prominent pitchmen for what has become an annual fall s...
ChargePoint Earnings Are Today. What to Expect.
Text size ChargePoint has grown sales faster than it expected. Bing Guan/Bloomberg ChargePoint has had a flurry of good news. That raises the bar for the electric-vehicle charging company’s quarterly ...
Opinion: U.S.-China relations just got a whole lot better, boosting the prospects of these three stocks
If you are laser-focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s policy, you might have missed a key breakthrough in U.S.-China relations that will boost U.S.-listed China stocks over the next six mont...
U.S. states fall short of pledges to cut ties with Russia
Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia. A few stat...
The Federal Reserve Can’t Back Down on Inflation in the Face of Recession
Text size The prospect of recession is raising alarm among households, firms, and investors alike. Spencer Platt/Getty Images About the author: Carl Tannenbaum is the executive vice president and chie...
Alibaba, Nio stocks rally along with other Chinese names as SEC reaches audit deal with China
U.S-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Nio Inc. were among Chinese names trading higher in morning action Friday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has struck ...
Alibaba, JD.com Rising on Report of Resolution to SEC Delisting Issue
Text size Alibaba stock rose more than 8% following the report. AFP/Getty Images Stock in Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings took off on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that security r...
U.S., China Near Deal to Allow Audit Inspection of N.Y.-Listed Chinese Companies
SINGAPORE—The U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would allow American accounting regulators to travel to Hong Kong to inspect the audit records of Chinese companies listed in New York, accor...
How to Claim Your Student Loan Forgiveness
The Biden administration is canceling a portion of federal student loan debt. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size The Biden administration is canceling a portion of federal student loan debt a...
Biden Planning Student-Loan Announcement Wednesday
White House officials are planning for President Biden to make an announcement on Wednesday about his proposal for dealing with student-loan debt, according to people familiar with the matter. The pre...
U.S. Could Cancel Some Student Debt. Expect News Soon.
Text size A decision on forgiving federal student loan debt is expected by the end of August. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images The Biden administration is expected to make an announcement on federal ...
9 ways the Inflation Reduction Act affects Medicare coverage, and what it means for you
Major changes to prescription drug affordability for more than 50 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Part D are likely on the way because of a new law. The Inflation Reduction Act “finally del...
What $80 Billion More for the IRS Means for Your Taxes
The last Tax Report came out just as Congress took up the Inflation Reduction Act, and it discussed the bill’s $80 billion in proposed new Internal Revenue Service funding. Over half the new dollars w...
Yellen tells IRS to develop modernization plan in 6 months
Now that President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ expansive climate, tax and health care bill into law, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has directed the IRS to develop a plan within six months outli...
More IRS Audits Are on the Way for Taxpayers. How to Respond if You’re Targeted.
Taxpayers, be forewarned. A new era of IRS scrutiny is looming. The Internal Revenue Service is due to receive an infusion of $80 billion over 10 years under the Inflation Reduction Act—the tax, clima...
Biden will sign the Inflation Reduction Act today. Here’s MarketWatch’s rundown of how it will affect your energy bills, investments and drug costs.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is scheduled to sign into law the Inflation Reduction Act — the Democrats’ big economic package aimed at addressing climate change, capping drug costs and raising hundre...
What a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan Would Mean for Global Business
Beijing considers Taiwan, a democratically ruled island near mainland China, as part of its territory. When U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan this month to support its government, Beijing...
Nvidia’s ‘China Syndrome’: Is the stock melting down?
Like the nuclear reactor in the 1979 film “The China Syndrome,” Nvidia Corp.’s share price and sales forecast have been melting down, and a sales ban of artificial-intelligence chips to China is the l...