The debate over the taxation of carried interest has been bubbling for years in Congress, to little, if any, effect. But the release of Mitt Romney's tax returns during the Republican presidential primaries—showing that much of the ...
U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) has set a vote on extending the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts "before we leave for August," the first time House Republicans have set a clear timetable for beginning action on the tax cuts that ...
Nine years ago this month Congress passed President George W. Bush's Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. That bill's lower rates on capital, as well as the continuity in tax policy it established, have helped make our economy far ...
In "Annie Hall," Woody Allen tells the joke of two women complaining about a restaurant. The first says the food here is awful and the second replies, yes, and they serve such small portions. Sounds like President Obama's proposal to raise ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors are reeling from Europe’s deepening economic crisis, but they may soon find themselves battered closer to home as the U.S. economy closes in on another debt-ceiling debate and teeters toward the edge of ...
Higher capital-gains tax rates aren't a certainty for next year—Republicans and Democrats are still at odds over tax policy. But just to be on the safe side, you probably should start planning what to do if rates do go up. Waiting could ...
Craig Birk is director of portfolio management at San Francisco-based Personal Capital. Mutual funds were a great invention for their time because they made diversification available to the average investor. But over the last 10 years it's ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For the first time, the two-year German bond yield may dip below zero, a rare occurrence in the global fixed-income universe and one that flags growing fears over the future of the euro zone.
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — What’s better? Capital gains and dividend income, or just capital gains? News that Apple (AAPL, US) plans to pay out $2.65 per share per quarter starting later this year has more than a few scurrying to answer that ...
WASHINGTON—A Facebook Inc. co-founder on Thursday denied allegations by two Senate Democrats that he gave up his American citizenship to avoid taxes, saying his decision to live in Singapore was purely personal, and that he will owe ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Businesses have hit the pause button. New orders taken by durable goods makers edged up 0.2% in April, but the closely watched bookings for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft — seen as a proxy for future ...
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) lambasted conservatives who rallied around the Facebook Inc. co-founder who decided to give up his U.S. citizenship shortly before a stock sale that turned him into a paper billionaire, saying that the logic ...
By Siobhan Hughes Two U.S. Democratic senators on Thursday lashed out at a Facebook co-founder who gave up his U.S. citizenship shortly before the company's much-anticipated initial public offering and outlined steps to prevent the ...
MADRID—Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA said Thursday that it is studying the potential sale of its pensions management operations in Latin America, as part of an effort to focus on its main banking businesses.
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