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Monday’s stock-market plunge is unlikely by itself to make a significant dent in a U.S. economy that’s enjoying solid gains in spending and hiring, though it has the potential to rattle consumer sentiment, which soared after the November 2016 election.

Just when banks may have thought they have met all of their fiscal and regulatory obligations for the New Year (including the hotly debated IRS 871(m) requirements governing financial derivatives), yet a new one arises.

Mandatory quarterly reporting by public companies can lead to a short-sighted focus on near-term results, according to a new academic study.

Farewell, Ireland: it looks like corporate America will finally bring that cash home.

Call it the liberal (arts) penalty. This year’s tax overhaul slapped a 1.4 percent levy on the annual investment income of the wealthiest private university endowments. Republicans targeted the measure so narrowly that it ended up as a tax almost entirely on elite blue-state institutions.

Warren Buffett said the U.S. tax cut will make companies more valuable by giving owners a bigger share of profits.

Normally right about now, many on Wall Street would be packing their bags for the Caribbean or the slopes. Not this year.

Fund manager David Gorton sued a U.S. law firm for fraud after its lawyers convinced him to buy into a carbon-credit investment that they had an undeclared financial interest in, according to a London lawsuit.

Republicans are on the brink of passing the most extensive rewrite of the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years—but it’s not yet clear when President Donald Trump will actually sign the bill.

The final Republican tax bill set for a House vote Tuesday would add $448 billion to federal deficits over 10 years with economic growth factored in, the right-of-center Tax Foundation said Monday.

Investors have dodged a rule change that could have raised their tax bills when they sell stock.

Lawmakers scrambling to lock up Republican support for the tax reform bill added a complicated provision late in the process—one that would provide a multimillion-dollar windfall to real estate investors such as President Donald Trump.

Senator Bob Corker wrote to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch asking for an “explanation” of how a provision on pass-through businesses that would benefit real estate investors came to be included in the final version of the Republican tax bill.

The final version of the tax bill struck by Congressional negotiators would continue to subsidize municipal bonds that help businesses to finance infrastructure projects such as airports and toll roads, dropping one provision that threatened to cut sales of tax-exempt debt by tens of billions of dollars starting next year.

Some brokerage firms are concerned that the tax overhaul could lead to upheaval, pushing their employees to set up their own shops or switch firms to lower their tax bills.

A provision to treat graduate school tuition waivers as taxable income won’t be in the final House-Senate tax package, according to Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana and one other person briefed on a tentative deal reached Wednesday.

U.S. commercial real estate is a likely winner in the evolving Republican tax overhaul, which is poised to lower rates for property owners, spur new investment and increase demand for rental housing, according to a new report.

Lawmakers are re-examining a provision that would roll back subsidies for a big chunk of the municipal-bond market beginning next year, according to House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady.

Congress is giving finance officials at America’s colleges and universities even more to worry about.

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