COVER STORY Whipsawed by Wall Street Volatility is back big time--and Iraq isn't the only reason. Here's how the market is changing COVER IMAGE: Whipsawed by Wall Street GRAPHIC: Whipsawed by Wall Street CHART: The New Stock Market Is a Dangerous Place GRAPHIC: Why the Market Is So Volatile How to Stay Afloat GRAPHIC: A Portfolio for All Seasons ONLINE EXTRA: Five Rallies, Six Declines in Three Years ONLINE EXTRA: "Stocks Are Reasonable" ONLINE EXTRA: "The 20th Century Was Probably Lucky" EDITOR'S MEMO Staying on Top of a Changing Market UP FRONT Talk Show The Messenger Has Already Been Shot Where Have All the Companies Gone? Nice Place for a Speech, Anyway Everything's Coming Up Roses Dept. of Humor A Golden Opportunity for India's Jewelers READERS REPORT Weighing the Odds of Bush's Gamble Tools for Measuring Germany's Well-Being The Record on Ira Rennert What Does an A+ Mean in Life Insurance? CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Web phones take wing" (BusinessWeek Investor, Mar. 3, 2003) "The news biz: Is bigger better?" (Media, Mar. 3, 2003) BOOKS The Real Enemies of Free Markets TECHNOLOGY & YOU On Beyond Microsoft Explorer ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Compassionate Conservative's Bait-and-Switch Budget BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: The Funk on the Factory Floor Asia Pacific: Costly Oil and a Limp U.S. Economy May Be Spoilers NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Dollar Diplomacy COMMENTARY: Putin's High-Stakes Chess Game ONLINE EXTRA: Russia's Goal: "To Make Iraq Disarm" ONLINE EXTRA: Which Side Will Pakistan Back? Those Exploding Gas Prices The Feds May Lower the Boom on Ephedra Telecom: What Hath the FCC Wrought? Commentary: How the FCC Chairman Can Retake the Helm IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Glenn Hubbard: Another Economist Makes an Exit Taking a Bite Out of Corporate Crime? You've Got Music--for a Price More Heat on the Street GE Puts Another Unit on the Block Schering-Plough's Big Legal Load Et Cetera... Flying on Fumes WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Taxes: How Many Arms Can One President Twist? On the Record INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Back to Basics at Bertelsmann Europe's Year of Nasty Surprises Cracking Down on the Chaebol INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Why China Won't Lean Hard on North Korea Saudis Boost Oil Output A New French Scandal FINANCE Why Business Is Crazy for Debt How Fast Is China Really Growing? INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AMD's Hammer: The Right Tool for the Job? A Real Hollywood Horror Story Commentary: Startups May Die, but Not Their Bright Ideas SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Biotech's Hope Isn't Just DNA Anymore DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Fuel Cells for Your Laptop? A Sensor Runs Through It Bell Labs: Catching Up to the Clam DNA Soupercomputing ECONOMICS Commentary: Beyond Bush: A Simple Plan to Tax Consumption MARKETING Tyson: Is There Life Outside the Chicken Coop? THE CORPORATION Dark Days in White Goods for Sears The Fog Surrounding Lands' End PEOPLE Kelly Martin: Mr. Fixit or Mr. Liquidator? SOCIAL ISSUES A Visa Loophole as Big as a Mainframe It's Child's Play to Fake It BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Mapping Out Your Options A Perk for the Rank and File, Too A Day Trip to Japan's Past Grocery Bag Therapy Visionary Looks Unleash Your Home Wi-Fi Net Q&A: Guarding Your Home Network DIVIDENDS The Stat We Told You So Retro Grooves Small Change THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Next Level: A Grim Fairy Tale INSIDE WALL STREET Cheap Buy or Goofy? Digene's Pap Test May Get an FDA Boost This Biotech Could Get Swallowed FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS France's Dangerous Hypocrisy Farewell to "Buy and Hold" INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Deconstructing Germany's Decline Manned Space Missions: Make Them History INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Meet the Latest Tech All-Star from Taiwan Megawati's Tightrope INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Commentary: Can Angela Merkel Save Germany? The time is right for the popular Christian Democrat to push Chancellor Schröder for real economic reform ONLINE EXTRA: The Opposition's Game Plan for Germany Gemplus Wants Its Gleam Back France's smart-card pioneer has a plan to stanch the red ink, though pricing pressures could make a turnaround tricky INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Too Much Room at the Top INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
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