Roth IRAs are a great way to save for retirement, because they let you set money aside and have it grow tax-free for as long as you leave the money in the retirement account.

NEW YORK U.S. stocks slumped on the last trading day of the year on Friday, led down by Apple and other big tech stocks, but major indexes still posted solid gains in 2016.

Just how important is Social Security? According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), better than 6 in 10 seniors are currently reliant on their benefits to make up at least half of their monthly income.

Oil prices may finally have stabilized, but hurdles to further gains remain. After more than two years of a crude glut that drove prices to decade lows, analysts and industry executives see supply and demand of oil rebalancing next year.

F. Ross Johnson, the RJR Nabisco Inc. chief executive officer whose efforts to take the company private in the 1980s led to the then-largest takeover in Wall Street history chronicled in the best-selling book “Barbarians at the Gate,” died Dec. 29 at ...