Background
Currier was born in New York City on 26 March 1945.
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Chester Currier
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He attended elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, and high school at Berkshire School, a co-educational boarding school in Sheffield, Massachusetts. He then attended Amherst College, graduating in 1966 with a Bachelor Degree in English.
Career
He worked for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press, providing daily and weekly columns covering Wall Street, markets and financial matters. Currier was also noted as a major contributor of crossword puzzles, having published over 1000 large-format puzzles through the Associated Press syndicate. He then served with the United States Navy.
After discharge from the military, Currier"s first employment was with a trade journal, Home Furnishings Daily.
From there he moved to The Associated Press, first based in Kansas City, Missouri (1970), then in New York (1972). In 1974 he was assigned to provide full-time financial coverage (ie Wall Street reporter).
His first financial column for Associated Press was titled Ticker Talk, and provided an irreverent but financially sound analysis of both daily financial events and long-term trends. He added a second column, On the Money in 1979.
In 1999 Currier moved from Associated Press to Bloomberg, providing a twice-a-week column discussing financial news and trends, and providing financial investing advice.
He died in a local hospice due to complications of prostate cancer on 29 July 2007.
