Chet Currier, 61, AP Financial Columnist

Chet Currier, whose byline was familiar to millions of readers of newspaper business pages during a 37-year journalism career with Bloomberg News and the Associated Press, has Sunday in Manhattan Beach, Calif. of complications of prostate cancer.

At AP, he wrote the daily stock market story that, until the explosion in coverage of financial news, was the single most-widely published business story in U.S. daily newspapers.

After 29 years at AP, Currier joined Bloomberg in 1999, where he wrote a twice-weekly column on mutual funds and personal investing. As a columnist, he had a knack for taking contrarian positions.

"Buy low, sell high' may be the least helpful piece of investment advice ever given," he wrote in 2006. "Those four little words convey no sense whatsoever of how difficult it is for most investors to put them into practice."

He edited AP's weekly crossword puzzle for 20 years, creating more than 1,000 puzzles.