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WSJ economics reporter Rachel Ensign spoke to people whose insurance bills are rising, and she joins us now.

Rachel, the amount that health premiums are going up varies from state to state depending on your income, but broadly speaking, how much are people's premiums rising?

So people are getting confronted with these increases in their monthly premiums.

How are people responding?

Is there a government plan to restore these subsidies?

That was WSJ reporter Rachel Ensign.

Thanks, Rachel.

U.S.

stock markets moved higher today, with the Dow leading the gains in the indexes and closing up 0.6%.

Equities gained, but so did precious metals, as gold continued its historic rally, closing above $5,000 a troy ounce, while silver soared 14%, its biggest one-day jump in 40 years, to its latest record.

The metal closed above $115 a troy ounce.

And there's a winter storm and cold streak in much of the U.S.

that today disrupted thousands of flights and left hundreds of thousands still without power.

And it's helped natural gas prices extend their rally.

Futures for February delivery have roughly doubled from a week ago.

And in the latest AI infrastructure deal, NVIDIA is investing an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave to build new AI factories that use NVIDIA technology.

NVIDIA has been investing billions of dollars into other AI companies and already owned a 6.6% stake in CoreWeave.

Today is the first day you can start filing your 2025 tax returns, and many Americans may find they're getting bigger refunds this year.

Richard Rubin, who covers tax policy for the journal, says one of the changes with the biggest impacts is the new higher maximum deduction for state and local taxes.

These tax cuts and others are the result of a bunch of new tax rules that came from Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act.