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To: Skeet Shipman who wrote (53158)	7/19/2001 10:48:13 AM
From: Skeet Shipman	Respond to of 94695

The Leading Indicators Were Up Again This Month - 3 months in a row. The Leading Indicators report is, for the most part, a compendium of previously announced economic indicators: new orders, jobless claims, money supply, average workweek, building permits, and stock prices. Therefore, the report is extremely predictable and of very little interest to the market. It however has predictive qualities, especially , when trending month after month in the same direction. Leading Index Weighting Factor . Average weekly hours, manufacturing .1899 Average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance .0240 Manufacturers' new orders, consumer goods and materials .0489 Vendor performance, slower deliveries diffusion index .0271 Manufacturers' new orders, nondefense capital goods .0125 Building permits, new private housing units .0184 Stock prices, 500 common stocks .0304 Money supply, M2 .3034 Interest rate spread, 10-year Treasury bonds less federal funds .3274 Index of consumer expectations .018