Women Veterans Day set Nov. 1

Women veterans from across the state, from World War II to the present, will soon gather in Oklahoma City for the 24th Annual Oklahoma Women Veterans Recognition Day.

The Worst Investment I've Ever Seen

In the interest of full disclosure, the absolute worst investment I've ever seen is an advance-fee offer from a long-lost Nigerian pen pal named Dr.

A Better Way to Retire Happy

Success stories are regular features of our Motley Fool Rule Your Retirement newsletter service, where we share profiles of people who have become financially independent.

The Best Stocks for the Next 4 Years

I'm not bold enough to call a bear market bottom, but I do believe it's close. For starters, market data reveal that by the time stocks enter bear market territory , roughly three-quarters of the drop is ...

Bracing for a Double Dip

This year's volatility appears to have grounded a good many of Wall Street's big boys.

Surviving the bear

Jack Bogle, founder of mutual-fund giant Vanguard Group, is a longtime detractor of the speculative products and schemes that snowball individual investors and enrich Wall Street.

Movie Screener

An inspirational crowd-pleaser, Gary Fleder's biopic of Ernie Davis -- the first African American to win the coveted Heisman Trophy --depicts the white lines that the "Elmira Express" had to cross on and off ...

U.S. stocks rebound in worst week ever for Dow and S&P

U.S. stocks on Friday rallied back from stiff losses to end mostly lower in capping the worst week ever for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500.

This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades

At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you might think we'd be the last people to give ...

U.S. Stocks Drop in Rollercoaster Day as Dow Average Swings 1,000 Points

U.S. stocks fell for an eighth straight day in a whipsaw session that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its biggest point swing ever.