The other indicators include average weekly hours of manufacturing production workers;

average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance; manufacturers’ new orders, consumer goods and materials; vendor performance, slower diffusion index; manufacturers’

new orders, nondefense capital goods; building permits for new private housing units;

money supply; interest rate spread, 10-year Treasury bonds less fed funds; and index of consumer expectations. These data, tabulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), are available in the Survey of Current Business. LO.1