The Internal Revenue Service has announced annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2022, meaning new tax-rate schedules and tax tables and cost-of-living adjustments for various tax breaks. Most ...

About half of U.S. adults (52%) lived in middle-income households in 2022, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent available government data. Roughly three-in-ten (28%) were in ...

Time and again, the stock market demonstrates the power of patience for investors. Despite the widely followed S&P 500 undergoing 38 double-digit corrections since the beginning of 1950, each and ...

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Economic recovery and an inflation spike sent the 10-year Treasury yield up from 1.5% at the start of the year to 3.6% on Nov. 30, 2022. That’s generally bad news for stocks, and the S&P 500 has ...

With inflation at a 40-year high at the start of the year, persistent low yields in core bonds and the uncertainty from the war on Ukraine that’s resulted in ongoing market volatility, fixed-income ...

Just as inflation can drive up costs, macroeconomic shifts, layoffs, or industry downturns can lead to declines in household income, potentially posing challenges to families affording housing, ...