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Apr. 17, 2000




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COVER STORY
Is the Party Over?
   COVER IMAGE: Wall Street: Is the Party Over?
   CHART: Tech Comes Back to Earth
   CHART: Internet Stocks Take a Dive
   TABLE: The Move to Quality
   Margin Calls: Not a Lot of Wiggle Room
   Time to Keep a Cool Head
      TABLE: Why You Shouldn't Sell in a Panic
   The Dot-Coms Are Falling to Earth
      TABLE: The Internet Shakeout
   Why Gates Is Rolling the Dice
      TABLE: Bill's Vision
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: "Ultimately, the Market Gets Priced on Fundamentals"
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: BW's Bill Wolman on the Stampede to Quality (Video)
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Oppenheimer Funds' Marci Rossell on the Market in the New Economy (Video)
 
SPECIAL REPORT
Executive Pay
   TABLE: The Top-Paid Chief Executives...And 10 Who Aren't CEOs
   TABLE: Pay for Performance: Both Ends of the Scale
   TABLE: Fortunes in the Future
   TABLE: Pay for Market Performance: Execs Speak Out
   Who Earned Their Keep--And Who Didn't
      TABLE: Overachievers
      TABLE: Underperformers
   The Package That Launched a Dozen Lawsuits
   Compensation Scoreboard Glossary
   Scoreboard: 1999 Executive Compensation (.pdf)
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Harry, We Hardly Knew Ye
A Veggie Cleaner to Shine Up P&G Stock
TABLE: Early Deaths: Fact and Fiction
How Much Is a Terrorist Worth?
Weaving the Web in Paris
Pocketful of Savings
Not Much Cooking at the Multiplex
CHART: Start the E-Revolution without Me
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
Shadows Fall across the Valley
It Wasn't Easy Saying Goodbye to General Re
Americast Is Already a Star
Losing Yourself in a Good E-Book
An Accountant Counts His Blessings
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''The talented Ms. Redstone'' (Entertainment, Apr. 3, 2000)
 
BOOKS
The New World Disorder
   PHOTO: Cover, ''Deliver Us from Evil''
   PHOTO: Cover, ''The New Military Humanism''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
At Last, the PC Gets Simpler
   TABLE: How the New Boys Match Up
   PHOTO: Compaq's iPAQ
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Speculative Bubble
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
America's Secret Labor Force
   CHART: The Growing Disparity between Job Counts
Did Maternity-Leave Law Help?
U.S. Operations Hum Overseas
   CHART: Foreign Profits Rise Again
 
INDUSTRY INSIDER
Gazing into the Future with Deere's Top Ag Man
 
INDUSTRIAL MONITOR
Making Light Work of Ceramic Parts
A Way to Call the Coming Year in Chips
   CHART: First Quarter As an IC Market Momentum Indicator
Molecules That Play Traffic Cop
Innovations
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Growth Is Still Too Fast to Satisfy the Fed
   CHART: Domestic Demand Is Accelerating
   CHART: A Record Quarter for Car Sales
   CHART: Purchasers See Wisps of Pricing Power
Thailand: Slouching toward Recovery
   CHART: Thailand Comes Out of Recession
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Seattle without the Tear Gas?
Commentary: Biotech Foods Aren't out of the Woods Yet
Mattel: A Great Deal of Re-Assembly Required
   CHART: No Joy in This Toy Story
Techdom's New Bean-Counting Battle
Commentary: Those Web Patents Aren't Advancing the Ball
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Jerry Sanders: Chipping Away at Intel
Building a Wireless Goliath
MetLife Goes the IPO Route
Call It the Coke Challenge
Guidant and J&J Bury the Hatchet
One Giant Step for Chinese Trade
Et Cetera...
Sears Robust
   CHART: Sears Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
The Surprising Success of the Accidental Speaker
UPS vs. American Airlines
Targeting Issue Ads
 
THE CORPORATION
Name Your Price--for Everything?
   TABLE: Coming Soon
 
GOVERNMENT
The Globo-Cop at Treasury
   TABLE: T-Man on a Tear
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
A New Company Called Motorola
   TABLE: Unfinished Business
   TABLE: Motorola's Comeback
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Galvin on the New Motorola: "Fast, Smart, Quick, Agile--Go"
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Commentary: This Law Is User-Unfriendly
   TABLE: Who Is Fighting UCITA?
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Introduction
Gene Warfare against Melanoma
Chemo without the Hair Loss?
What Guards a Smoker's Lungs
A $25 Test for Relapse
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
Commentary: Masters of Anti-Sports-Marketing
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Damage Control at Deutsche
The Long Reach of HSBC
The Mad Grab for a Piece of Britain's Air Waves
   TABLE: The Logic behind the Frenzy
Commentary: Wanted: A Good Cop for Europe's Bourses
Russia's Securities Czar: ''I Want the Market to Work''
   RESUME: Igor Kostikov
Commentary: The Chinese Need Capital--and Condemnation
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Will Japan's New Premier Slam the Brakes on Reform?
German Transparency?
Ecuador Cashes Out
 
FINANCE
What Really Killed Robertson's Tiger
   Commentary: The Buck Stops with Julian Robertson, Not the Market
This Alchemy May Yield Real Gold
   CHART: Inverse Head-and-Shoulders: Bullish Signal
   CHART: Broadening Tops: Bearish Signal
   CHART: Triangle Bottoms: Bearish Signal
   TABLE: Other Bullish and Bearish Signals
Green Tree: No Money Grows Here
   CHART: Conseco's Stock Slides on the Bad News
 
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Online Utilities Charge Up
   TABLE: Some E-Utility Pioneers
   CHART: The Online Market for Power Will Soar
   The Hot Word in Power: Telecom
 
ENVIRONMENT
A Passion for Nature As Great As Thoreau's
 
MARKETING
H&R Block Gets All Snarled Up in the Web
   TABLE: Roadblocks
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Taking Your Trade to the Limit
   TABLE: What's the Difference?
Global Investing without the High Wire
   TABLE: Deutsche International Select Equity
Keep Your Nest Egg Safe--Watch Housing Data
   TABLE: Constructive Indicators
Newspaper Investors May Have the Last Laugh
   TABLE: Hot off the Presses
Girls' Night Out with a Focus on Finance
 
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
When Should You Sell a Winner?
   TABLE: Staying ahead of Uncle Sam
 
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Beaming In on Hughes
   CHART: On a Steady Climb
What's Hot at Carolina Power
   CHART: A Strong Recent Surge
Why CVS Is Feeling More Robust
   CHART: Recovering from the Blahs
 
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week
   CHART: Production Index
   Production Index Components
   HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
   CHART: S&P 500
   CHART: Mutual Funds
The Week Ahead
 
EDITORIALS
The Market Needed a Dose of Reality...
   ...And That Goes Double for Dot-Coms
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON THAILAND
The Skytrain Is Flying High...But an Airport Is in a Holding Pattern (int'l edition)
   MAP: Bangkok
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM INDIA
Why India's Poor Pay for Private Schools (int'l edition)
   MAP: Northern India
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
The Monetary Union Is Doing Just Fine--Considering (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
The World Bank: Time to Scale Back in Indonesia? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: A Massive Presence and Big Problems
Did China Miss the IPO Boat? (int'l edition)
   CHART: China's Dot-Coms Are Heading South
Commentary: The Next Frontier in Remaking the Chaebol (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Welcome to Milan, Home of Opera, Fashion--and Broadband (int'l edition)
   TABLE: E.Biscom's Quick Start
Can Peugeot Go It Alone? (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Peugeot's Game Plan
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
Matsui: The Little Broker That Could (int'l edition)
   CHART: Japanese Are Hooked, Too
   TABLE: Here Is Where They're Trading
Commentary: Tame the Currency Markets? Think Again (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (int'l edition)
   Country Focus/Japan (int'l edition)
      CHART: Improving Sentiment
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
The Fallout from Deutsche Bank (int'l edition)
 

ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
MARCH 20, 2000
Latin Execs Light Out for Dot-Com Land
MARCH 27, 2000
Now, Brits Can Surf to Their Hearts' Content
Dot-Com Deals Come to the Steppes
APRIL 3, 2000
Red Flags on the Latin Web
       Going, Going, Going...Out of Business?
APRIL 10, 2000
Busting the Astra Bottleneck



 
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