Economic and Fundamental Stock Market Indicators

Monetary Statistics

• Monetary Base
• Excess Reserves at Depository Institutions
• M1 Money Supply
• M2 Money Supply
• MZM Money Supply

Housing Statistics

• New Housing Starts
• Building Permits for New Housing Starts
• Mortgage Applications
• Pending Home Sales
• NAHB Housing Market Index

Employment Statistics

• Average Weekly Hours Worked by Manufacturing Production Workers
• Overtime Hours Worked by Manufacturing Production Workers
• Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits

Manufacturing Activity

• Durable Goods Orders
• ISM Purchasing Managers Index
• ISM Inventories Index
• ISM Manufacturing Supplier Deliveries Index
• Empire State Manufacturing Index
• Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index
• Chicago Business Barometer

Economic Sentiment and Expectations

• University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
• University of Michigan Consumer Expectations Index
• NFIB Small Business Optimism Index

Other Leading Indicators

• Non-Defense Capital Goods Orders
• Construction Spending
• Business Sales-to-Inventories Ratio
• Bank Loans
• Household Installment Debt
• Interest Rate Spread: 10-Year Treasury less Fed Funds Rate

Employment Statistics

• Non-farm Job Gains (Losses)
  
• Private Sector Job Gains (Losses)
  
• Labor Participation Rate

Housing Statistics

• New Home Sales
• Existing Home Sales

Personal Income and Spending

• Real Disposable Personal Income
• Real Personal Consumption Expenditures

Production and Sales of Goods and Services

• Industrial Production
• Factory Orders
• Retail Sales
• Auto Sales
• Real Gross Private Domestic Investment
• Real Final Sales of Domestic Product
• Real Gross Domestic Purchases
• Real Gross Domestic Product

Interest Rates

• Effective Fed Funds Rate
• Yield on 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note
• 30-Year Conventional Mortgage Rate

Energy Prices

• West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil (Spot Price)
• Retail Gasoline Price (National Average)

Inflation Statistics

• Consumer Price Index
• Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index
• GDP Price Deflator
• Producer Price Index – All Commodities
• Producer Price Index – Manufactured Goods
• Producer Price Index – Retail Goods
• Employment Cost Index

Significant Lagging Indicators

• Unemployment Rate
• Unit Labor Costs
• Bank Prime Interest Rate

Other Significant Fundamental Indicators

• Corporate Profits
• M2 Money Velocity
• CRB Spot Index

• Business Productivity vs. Unit Labor Costs
• Cash Flows Into (Out of) Stock Mutual Fund and ETFs
• Institutional Holdings of Money Market Securities

• U.S. Dollar Index
• Oil Demand vs. Oil Supply