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Ossie Dahl’s retirement didn’t go as planned.

The 64-year old hospital exec had just completed a 40-year career at White Plains hospital in New York.

Moments after finishing a speech at his retirement party, he collapsed and died.

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Nobody knows how long they will be “retired.”

This Valentine's Day, you may want to add Hershey shares to the chocolate Kisses you buy.

Hershey offers equity investors an attractive risk/reward balance for the present environment.

“Three Identical Strangers” delves into the age-old nature vs. nurture question. The documentary film chronicles the amazing story of identical triplets separated at birth and reunited 19 years later.

How did it happen?

According to Lipper data, investors moved over $190 billion into money-market funds in the final quarter of 2018—the biggest dash to cash since 2008.

How many got back in to catch the best January rally in over 30 years?

Whipsaws are painful. And all too common in the stock market.

Would you trust a teenager to manage your life savings? What about a 94-year old?

Most activities have a certain age where folks enter their prime.

For instance, if you’re a professional football player, that's considered the mid-to-late 20s—when players have a few years of NFL experience and physical skills remain near peak levels.

Around a year ago, I wrote a post about how I use the annual forecasts of Wall Street strategists to deduce a range for where I think the market will finish the year.

"The Dogs of the Dow" is a popular screening technique many employ at the start of each year. To follow the strategy, investors buy the top ten dividend-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).

It's an okay method to hunt for bargains, but I think there's a better way.

One of the world’s most successful investors is probably a person you’ve never heard of. In fact, she doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.

For Geraldine Weiss, that’s probably just fine. She spent decades of her life in disguise anyway.

Following several days of rampant selling, the Dow and S&P 500 are currently on track for their biggest December loss since 1931.

Many investors are wondering: what's driving this?