Inside Wall Street featured 183 stocks in 49 issues in 1998. For each issue, 
the returns for the market benchmarks were calculated for each of four time 
periods. Those returns were averaged over all 49 issues, and the results are 
below. The average return for the column was figured the same way.

                         1 DAY      1 MONTH   3 MONTHS  6 MONTHS

STANDARD & POOR'S 500     0.3%       2.7%       6.3%      11.2%
DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS     0.3        2.1        4.2        8.9
RUSSELL 2000              0.2        0.6       -0.8       -2.9
INSIDE WALL STREET        4.9        3.8       -0.1       -2.2


DATA: BUSINESS WEEK, STANDARD & POOR'S CORP.