Russia exports roughly $19 billion of gold a year, and cutting off that revenue source will add to pressure on the Russian economy, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Dreamstime Text size...
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Senate Advances Bill to Raise Age for RMDs to 75
Text size Savers can wait longer to begin emptying retirement accounts under pending legislation. Eric Lee/Bloomberg The Senate Finance Committee advanced a bill on Wednesday that would raise the age ...
Big Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Get Closer With Senate Vote
Americans could wait longer to start emptying retirement accounts and face fewer restrictions on emergency withdrawals under a bill advanced unanimously Wednesday by the Senate Finance Committee. The...
Supreme Court dismisses case against SEC’s ‘no admit, no deny’ policy backed by Musk, Cuban
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a challenge brought against the Securities and Exchange Commission by a former Xerox executive, and backed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, against the Securities and Ex...
Harvard expert warns of potential ‘harm’ to index investing, as Republican bill takes on ‘woke fund managers’
Senators and legal experts tussled Tuesday over the merits of a Republican bill that aims to reduce the voting power of the three index-investing giants — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. Republi...
Treasury Secretary Yellen Says She Was Wrong About Inflation
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday her inflation projections were wrong in statements she made last year as consumer prices began a surge to their highest level in decades. “I think I was wr...
War surges Norway’s oil, gas profit. Now, it’s urged to help
Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian energy has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway’s oil and gas. As the money pours in, Europe’s second-biggest natural gas supp...
Proposed IRS Rule Could Penalize Some Heirs of Retirement Accounts
Proposed new regulations from the Internal Revenue Service for inherited retirement accounts would require many heirs to make minimum annual withdrawals from the accounts—leaving less room for the sav...
Natural Gas Prices are Holding Up. Here’s Why.
Text size The Yamal-Europe pipeline from Russia has exit points in Wloclawek, Poland. The pipeline is a major source of Europe’s natural gas. Omar Marques/Getty Images Vladimir Putin’s decision ...
CEO reportedly laments red ink incurred from Air Force One deal as Boeing posts $1.2 billion first-quarter loss
Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter as it took large write-downs and lost money in both its civilian-airplane and defense businesses. The loss was bigger than Wall Str...
Poland and Bulgaria say Russia suspending natgas supplies over rubles
Officials in Poland and Bulgaria say Russia is suspending their countries’ natural gas deliveries starting on Wednesday. The governments of the two European countries said Tuesday that Russian energy ...
‘The issues with the IRS are still present and very real’: Millions of Americans are racing to file their tax returns, and filing extensions
Tax Day came and went earlier this week, so if your upcoming weekend plans are just chilling after the last-minute tax time bustle, you might have company. April 18 marked the deadline in most states ...
Biden administration launches student loan review, says 40,000 borrowers will see debt canceled
The Department of Education announced Tuesday a new review of its student debt portfolio, which it says will correct for past mistakes that denied 3.6 million borrowers credit toward student loan forg...
Warren Tells IRS to Focus Audits on the Rich, Not Low-Income Taxpayers
Lawmakers are calling on the IRS to stop disproportionately auditing low-income taxpayers, who they say are far more likely than other taxpayers to face IRS scrutiny, with audit rates for poorer filer...
You Made $700 From an Online Side Hustle. Now the IRS Will Know.
Now that your 2021 taxes are done—or at least under way—it’s time to focus on a key tax change for 2022 affecting millions of Americans making money through platforms like eBay , Etsy , Airbnb , Venmo...
Recession is `the most likely’ outcome for U.S. economy, says Larry Summers
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, whose out-of-consensus views about the risks of persistent inflation have come true, is reiterating his concerns about a potential U.S. downturn: He now says a...
The Safe Investment That Will Soon Yield Almost 10%
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in finance. Except maybe this: The interest rate on inflation-adjusted U.S. savings bonds will approach 10% beginning in May. U.S. Treasury Series I Bonds, or I B...
Why Russia Doesn’t Want to Default—Even in a Time of War
Behind the fight over whether Russia should be allowed to pay off its debts is an age-old issue: Borrowers, even in times of war, want to keep their reputations for making investors whole. The U.S. Tr...
A Mom Who Died Still Needs Taxes Filed. Here’s How to Handle the Tricky Process
Dreamstime.com Text size Have a question about saving for retirement or your personal financial situation? Whatever the question, Barron’s Retirement can try to help. Email [email protected], and...
U.S. corn and soybean stocks rise, but corn plantings forecast cut: USDA
Corn futures climbed Thursday after reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday revealed higher U.S. corn and soybean stocks, along with a lower forecast for this year’s planted corn a...
Ukraine’s Friends Refuse to Pay Russia Rubles for Gas. What Could Come Next.
The Kasimovskoye underground gas storage facility operated by Gazprom, in Kasimov, Russia. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size Vladimir Putin was rash enough to invade Ukraine. Could he double his bet ...
Senators Plan Bipartisan Retirement Package as House Poised to Pass Secure 2.0
Retirement experts urged lawmakers Tuesday to take action to expand the availability of workplace savings plans and to level some of the barriers that have kept workers from putting more money away fo...
Worried About Getting Audited? Here Are Red Flags for the IRS.
Even though the Internal Revenue Service is auditing fewer taxpayers these days, you still don’t want to put a target on your back. Among those more likely to get audited: Small-business owners with l...
‘Life is measurably better without the burden of this debt’: As Biden reviews student-debt cancellation, young people with debt delay buying a house and even having kids
Young Americans are buckling under the weight of their student debt. A large majority (74%) of Generation Z (ages 18 to 25) and 68% of millennials (ages 26 to 41) who took on student debt delayed a ma...