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Nearing retirement? Give yourself a financial check-up

W. David Fey, Inside Tucson Business

$4 per-gallon gas ahead as oil production peaks

Get ready for $4-a-gallon gasoline.

This is good time to flesh out your financial skeleton

As Halloween nears next weekend, the most frightening prospect for some adults has nothing to do with ghosts or goblins. Rather, it’s their scary lack of preparation when it comes to retirement planning.

China's investments pose a new global challenge

For a brief period in mid-July, China’s stock market edged out Japan’s as the world’s second-largest exchange. Then, Chinese stock prices tumbled 20 percent in August, putting Japan back on top.

A credit shelter trust could help protect your assets

As time goes by and wealth accumulates, one of the most costly mistakes a married couple can make is not establishing an estate plan to protect their assets. While it’s true that married couples can generally transfer assets at the death of one spouse to the surviving spouse on an estate-tax-free basis, this may lead to a tax trap when the second spouse dies and those assets are passed on to children or other beneficiaries.

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