Investment

Budget Battles

  • Why Venture Capitalists Are Bearish About 2013

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    The old year – 2012 – will go down in the record books as a good one for investors, as the S&P 500 eked out a double-digit gain of 13.4 percent . But to remind ourselves of the volatile and...

  • 2012 Stock Market Winners and Losers

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    The S&P 500 gained more than 13 percent on the year, even as investors swung repeatedly between “risk on” and “risk off” modes that had them alternately seeking to boost gains or find safety amid...

  • Details of Senate Fiscal Cliff Tax Deal

    By Eric Pianin

    Here is a summary of the fiscal cliff agreement approved by the Senate early Tuesday morning by a vote of 89 to 8. The House is set to vote on the plan today, and this is not a slam dunk. Many house...

  • Will House Approve Senate Tax Hike on Super Rich?

    By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

    If the budget gods had their way, the 112th Congress would mercifully conclude its deliberations today on a major budget deal to blunt the worst of the fiscal cliff and then fade into history. We’re...

  • Senate May Have Cliff Deal on Taxes Only

    By Eric Pianin and Josh Boak

    A seemingly upbeat President Obama tried to keep the pressure on negotiators to finalize a fiscal cliff deal by midnight tonight as the rough contours of a bipartisan agreement began to emerge from...