Retirement Trends

Stock futures dipped Wednesday as another nation in Europe sank into recession and the economic contraction for the entire European Union stretched into its sixth straight quarter.

A New York state appeals court dismissed a lawsuit brought by insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. against Goldman Sachs over an investment that went bad.

Stock indexes are moving higher in early trading on Wall Street as a record-breaking advance on the stock market got moving again.

People should be prepared to spend approximately 30 percent of their income on health care expenses in retirement, 10 percent more than most people polled in a new survey anticipate spending.

With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources.

Future health care costs are becoming an even more important part of retirement planning.