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May 3, 1999




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COVER STORY
A Wiser Bull?
   COVER IMAGE: A Wiser Bull?
   TABLE: The Market Turns From Glamour To Grit
   CHART: Cyclicals Trump the S&P 500...Industry Comes Back...As Do Financials and Small Caps
   The Highfliers: From Vertigo to ''Only Very Volatile''
      CHART: The Wild Ride for Net Stocks
   Commentary: Consider This: A Tech Slump May Spark a Hard Landing
   Boeing Breathes Easier
      TABLE: Forecast for Boeing: Partly Sunny
   TABLE: Profit Woes? Not This Time
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: How a Market Shift Could Realign the Mutual-Fund Stars
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
Asia: How Real Is Its Recovery? (int'l edition)
   ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Asia: How Real Is Its Recovery?
   CHART: Southeast Asia's Economies Are Bottoming Out...
   CHART: ...And Stock Markets Are Booming...
   CHART: ...But Debt Levels Remain High...
   TABLE: ...And More Shocks Are Possible
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Telecom's New Giant (int'l edition)
   EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: When Giants Dance
   TABLE: Snapshot of a Behemoth
   TABLE: Its Strengths...And Its Weaknesses
   The Upstart Furiously Building Bandwidth (int'l edition)
 
SPECIAL REPORT
Hello, Internet
   TABLE: What Internet Phones Will Do
   TABLE: Road Warriors, Choose Your Weapon
   PHOTO: Nokia 9110
   PHOTO: NeoPoint Cell Phone
   PHOTO: Samsung Internet Phone
   PHOTO: Motorola 1000Plus
   CHART: Wireless Worlds
   Can Japan Get Back in the Wireless Game?
      TABLE: Japan's Power Players
   Cell-Phone Central (int'l edition)
      TABLE: On the Cutting Edge
   Taking the Isolation Out of Poverty (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Code Blue for Small Hospitals?
   CHART: Projected Hospital Profits
Lights! Camera! Contributions!
Bombardier Zeroes in on Buffett
From the Net to the Newsstand
Where to Stay in Splitsville
Hit the Bridges, Then Hit the Books
Seeds of Change in Iowa?
CHART: The Sales Tax Bite Has Teeth
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
Give Credit for the Mouse Where Credit Is Due
Microsoft's Junk-Mail Filter
Car Shopping on the Net: ''Terrific''
Media Warnings Are the Best Antivirus Defense
The Submarine Patent Is a Ploy to Cheat Inventors
Tax Cuts? Actually, America Does Want Them
The B-School at Texas A&M Is Up-to-Date
Wanted: Rules to Protect Online Privacy
New York Nursing Home Workers Are Well-Trained
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
Alfred Rappaport was misidentified in ''Is greed good?'' (Cover Story, Apr. 19)
''What to do when your fund stumbles'' (Personal Business, Apr. 19)
''Great service wasn't enough'' (Marketing, Apr. 19)
 
BOOKS
Greek Tragedy in the Rag Trade
   PHOTO: Cover, ''The Rise and Fall of the House of Barneys''
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
The Men Running Brazil Still Don't Get It
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Portrait of the Artists
   PHOTO: Picasso's ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon''
Info Tech: Who's Spending What
   CHART: America's Big Lead in Technology
Justice Isn't Color-Blind
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Close-to-Perfect Pocket E-Mail
   TABLE: Small Pager, Big Features
   PHOTO: RIM Inter@ctive Pager
Need Backup? Go to the Tapes
   PHOTO: OnStream Tape Drive
Help Desk
Web Destinations
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Take a Close Look at Those GDP Numbers
   CHART: A Sharp Widening in the Trade Gap
   CHART: A Sign That Capital Spending Is Slowing
   CHART: Housing: Is the Boom Losing Steam?
Australia: Bypassing Asia's Crisis
   CHART: Unemployment Is Trending Lower
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
The Fed's New Rule Book
   TABLE: A Change in the Guideposts
   CHART: Why the Old Rules Don't Explain It
Bitter Medicine Ahead for Drug Companies
   CHART: Are the Good Times Running Out?
Microsoft's Mission: Simplify, Simplify
   TABLE: Windows Dressing
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Joseph Gorman: Mechanic Needed
FASB Gets Fierce on Good Will
The Journal Jilts Its Newsroom
Tenneco Takes Another Whack
Rubin's Call for Sharing Risk
Intel Is Eyeing E-Commerce
Et Cetera...
Avon Falling
   CHART: Avon Products Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Clinton Sets a Parent Trap for the GOP?
Expanding Medicare
The Bells' Internet Gambit
Dollar Paul Likes Dollar Bill
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Asia: How Real Is the Recovery?
   CHART: Southeast Asia's Economies Are Bottoming Out...
   CHART: ...And Stock Markets Are Booming...
   CHART: ...But Debt Levels Remain High...
   TABLE: ...And More Shocks Are Possible
Are Two Old Monopolies Better Than One?
   TABLE: Snapshot of a New Giant
Busting the French--for Working Hard
   TABLE: The Costs of a Shorter Workweek
Is Russia Y2K Ready? Don't Bet on it
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Ground Troops: NATO Is Damned If It Does, Damned If It Doesn't
No Turkish Delight
A Real Race in Mexico
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
Asleep at the Helm?
 
MARKETING
The Great Hyped Way
   TABLE: Musical Marketing Mania
 
GOVERNMENT
John McCain: In His Own Feisty Words (extended)
Commentary: China and the WTO: Why Clinton Was Right
 
THE CORPORATION
Coke's Man on the Spot
   TABLE: They'd Like to Sell the World a Coke
   CHART: As Coke Sales Stall...Earnings Take a Hit...And the Stock Loses Its Fizz
   A Case of Deja Vu
   Now That's a Pepsi Challenge
 
FINANCE
Platinum vs. Platinum: The War over Fat Wallets
   TABLE: How the Cards Stack Up
The Amex Is Starting to Feel the Heat
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
TDS: Waiting for the Phone to Ring?
   CHART: The Service Provider May Be Set to Entertain Bids
This Utility Needs a Jolt
   CHART: A Deal Could Juice Things Up
Ardent and Prism May Prosper
   CHART: The SEC Worries Are in the Past
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Can Compaq Catch Up?
   TABLE: What Needs Doing
   TABLE: Compaq Hits Another Pothole
   CHART: Compaq's Stock Price
   A Tough Call, but the Right One
   Commentary: High-Tech Honchos Needn't Come from High Tech
 
BITS & BYTES
On the Internet, the Sexes Surf True to Form
   CHART: Parents Online
Your Business' Worth--in a Jiffy
Drive-By Chutzpah in Silicon Valley
   PHOTO: Investorama.com Billboard
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Get Me a Job
Bits & Bytes Contacts
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Of Mice and Men--and Cancer
   TABLE: Angiogenesis Inhibitors in Clinical Trials
   PHOTO: Untreated Cancerous Mouse Lungs
   PHOTO: Treated Mouse Lungs
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
From Everest to Yale, a Test of Telemedicine
A New Superdrug to Take on the Superbugs
Electroshock Therapy for Cancer-Causing Pollution
Tiny ''Malted Milk Balls'' Have a Way with Light
   PHOTO: Nanoshells
Developments to Watch Contacts
 
PEOPLE
Bringing New Air to New York
   RESUME: David Neeleman
 
SOCIAL ISSUES
Commentary: Sweatshop Reform: How to Solve the Standoff
   TABLE: Dueling Codes of Conduct
   TABLE: What's a Living Wage?
   CHART: Apparel Imports Have Soared...As Production Has Shifted Regions...
   TABLE: ...Seeking Low-Cost Labor
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
Catering to the Near-Wealthy
   TABLE: Gilt-Edged Help
Can Fair Value Still Bring Fine Returns?
   TABLE: Potential Gems
A Couple of Comeback Kids
   PHOTO: Neuberger's Rick White
   TABLE: Neuberger Berman Guardian
   PHOTO: American Century's John Sykora
   TABLE: American Century Ultra
 
BUSINESS WEEK INDEX
Business Week Index
   CHART: Production Index
   HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
The Week Ahead
 
INVESTMENT FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Investment Figures of the Week
   CHART: Mutual Fund Returns
   CHART: Stocks and Bonds
 
EDITORIALS
''New Economy'' Thinking at the Fed
Asia Is Far from Being ''Fixed''
Europe's Behemoths Shouldn't Wed
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON BELGIUM
A Village Opens Its Arms to Refugees...But the Welcome Isn't Unanimous (int'l edition)
   MAP: Belgium
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM ENGLAND
A Banker's Holiday: Running a Hockey Team (int'l edition)
   MAP: Britain
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Giving the Green Light to the Green Revolution (int'l edition)
Hats Off to India's ''Faceless'' Bureaucrats (int'l edition)
Malaysia's High-Tech Corridor: Two Views (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Anthony Salim's Comeback May Be Coming Apart (int'l edition)
   TABLE: What Salim Wants To Sell
Commentary: Why Indian Reform Keeps Biting the Dust (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
France: You're Under Arrest--for Working Too Hard (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The Costs of a Shorter Workweek
DaimlerChrysler's Trucks: Running on All Eighteen Wheels (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Tops in Trucks
Barbarians at the Wallenbergs' Gate (int'l edition)
   CHART: Going in Circles?
Is Russia Y2K-Ready? Don't Bet on It (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Risks for Russia On Jan. 1, 2000
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
Offshore Funds: Asia Is Back (int'l edition)
   TABLE: The Best...
   TABLE: ...The Worst
   TABLE: How the Biggest Funds Fared
   TABLE: Top Sectors
Making Sparks Fly in Mexico (int'l edition)



 
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