Average weekly manufacturing hours (August showed a decline),  Vendor performance (down slightly in recent month),  Stock prices  (depends on month over month price performance),  Index of consumer expectations (down meaningfully in the recent reading),  Manufacturers' new orders for consumer goods and materials (down in recent month),  Building permits (clearly not good), Average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance (depends on the month over month experience – relatively neutral at present), Interest rate spread (remember, these folks de-emphasized the inverted yield curve a while back) ,  Manufacturers' new orders for non-defense capital goods (down in recent month when including aircraft, up when not), and  Real money supply (neutral for now)

(from CI, 9/2006)