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Abbott Laboratories' experimental dissolvable heart stent effectively treated heart disease and absorbed into the walls of patients' arteries within two years, the company reported at a medical conference this week. The North Chicago-based medical-...

Worried about stocks, some investors are putting their retirement money into something they're convinced will be plentiful in 2008: foreclosures and tax liens. Using self-directed individual retirement accounts, investors are buying depressed real...

If your retirement garden -- specifically your individual retirement account, or IRA -- hasn't been growing fast enough to meet your future retirement needs, you might want to join a club of contrarians: those who have decided to take matters into their...

This story contains corrected material, published Nov. 18, 2007. Just because this a buyer's market doesn't mean buyers have it easy. Here are some of their challenges: FOLLOWING YOUR MONEY. Getting a mortgage is humbling again. In the height of the...

Supersize me. Individual investors, institutions and pension funds love to own megastocks that command everyone's attention. Market capitalization is computed by taking the total number of shares and multiplying by the share price. The stocks with the...