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Are you getting enough sleep? For years, Cynthia McKay wasn't.

Summer is ending but the market is still getting burned. Use this screen to find stocks that are breaking down.

The market remains deadlocked, but we may get a little move up. I'm selling NuVasive and Maxwell for two new plays, and shorting Italy and the British pound.

To really understand your coverage, you need to know about a lot more than just your deductibles and copayments.

Even when your financial well-being is getting clobbered, don't despair. It will help if you know what to expect -- and what to do next -- in 3 kinds of calamities.

With legions of users abroad 'unlocking' the red-hot phones from Apple's carrier and with a product line vulnerable to a US recession, the electronics innovator is losing out both here and abroad.

It comes in many forms, but all of them are essential to your business.

Excel is great for basic number crunching, but don't try to stretch it too far.

These 9 tips will help you manage your budget, steer straight and control your destiny.

The Dow finishes with a 90-point gain. Boeing surges on a bullish durable-goods report. Crude oil tops $118 on fears that Tropical Storm Gustav will threaten oil-and-gas platforms in the Gulf. Chrysler may sell its Viper sports car business.

New IRS data show a 62% increase in the number of people with a net worth of $20 million or more between 1997 and 2004. Separate data list the 'Fortunate 400.'

As most tennis players enjoy early autumn weather, Arthur Chapman, 47, and David Enstone, 54, prefer to work up a sweat indoors. Every Monday at 8 A.M., the owners of William Raveis Chapman Enstone, a real estate firm in Newport, R.I., meet inside a cavernous space that resembles the inner courtyard of a monastery, complete with gray stone walls and windows so small you can hardly poke your head through them.

How much would you pay for a nap? For entrepreneur Nicholas Ronco, that's a million-dollar question, with the fate of his 18-month-old business hanging on the answer.

At the expense of you and me, tax breaks help companies hand ever-bigger paychecks to CEOs. What are the presidential candidates doing about it? Almost nothing.

Investing in low-cost, tax-efficient index funds handily beats most variable annuities and would take billions back from the insurance industry.