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The IRS is trying to make the best of a government shutdown. Here’s how to protect your refund.

The federal tax collector seems poised to run out of funding on Saturday, just days after it started processing 2025 income-tax returns.

Gold and silver’s $7 trillion wipeout delivers a painful lesson about risk

If “safe” investments like gold and silver can crash in a single day, investors need to reconsider their portfolio hedges.

Trump picking Kevin Warsh as Fed chair wasn’t enough to soothe shaky markets

A double-whammy selloff of tech stocks and metals shook markets on Friday.

Oil prices unexpectedly score first monthly gain in half a year. So what’s the next move for OPEC+?

The group of major oil producers known as OPEC+ will have to take oil flow uncertainty and an expected global supply surplus into account when they meet this weekend to discuss production targets.

‘These are college students … not NFL players.’ Deion Sanders’s new $5,000 fines for Colorado players blur the lines around professional sports.

Student fines “would be paid out of pocket, exactly like if a student-athlete gets a parking ticket on campus,” a University of Colorado athletic department spokesperson said.

Fed honeymoon for Warsh? Briefly — then push comes to shove.

The Federal Reserve could cut rates a few more times this year — but likely not as much as President Trump wants.

McDonald’s may bring its 1,057-calorie Big Arch burger to America soon. Why it could be a billion-dollar seller.

McDonald’s is just one of a number of fast-food and fast-casual chains going the plus-size route with their burgers.

Unity’s stock becomes the latest victim of Google’s AI ambitions

Google’s new Project Genie prototype, which lets users simulate virtual worlds, has gaming investors very worried. But one analyst says their fears are overblown.

Will mortgage rates fall under Trump’s next Fed chair? Here’s what to know.

Mortgage rates didn’t move after President Donald Trump announced his pick of Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chair.

This single mom saved $1 million in 15 years to retire at 49. How to use her strategies to catch up on retirement savings.

It’s not too late to fast-track your retirement savings, even if you’re 50 years old and have debt.

This beaten-down sector could offer you a ripe investment opportunity

Also in Weekend Reads: Reaction to Trump’s decision to nominate Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, the software wipeout, momentum stocks and what to stream in February

How do I get the extra $6,000 ‘senior bonus’ this tax season?

Tax-filing season is officially open this year — and taxpayers age 65 and older may get an additional $6,000 deduction when they file a return.
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