How much you pay depends on your tax bracket and where lawmakers set the benchmark.

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Under current law, the top federal bracket for dividend income is set to triple next year to 44.6%.

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Two things drive the oil market: the price targets set by the big bulge bracket banks, namely Goldman Sachs, and China.

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