‘93/’94 Year-End Review and Outlook : YEAR-END SPECIAL

Today’s Business section is a special issue looking back at 1993 and ahead to 1994, in both the economy and the financial markets.

Regular Sunday features will return next week.

The expanded financial tables in today’s section are annual performance summaries for stocks and mutual funds. They take the place of the weekly tables. Markets columnist Tom Petruno has put together a user-friendly summary of the market year, D8. A special guide to understanding and using the mutual fund charts is on D11.

If you invest--or plan to--today’s section can be a valuable resource. Use it to evaluate your holdings’ performance in 1993 against market averages and to decide on the best opportunities for 1994.

Today’s features on the economy’s prospects, meanwhile, can help guide your personal and professional business decisions in the year ahead.

On Wednesday, the Business section will publish a special report on stock mutual funds, ranking he best- and worst-performing funds of 1993 and assessing the fund outlook for 1994.