April 25 2005 The BullandBearWise Index ranks the importance of 32 economic and financial indicators and assigns them a status of Bullish or Bearish For the latest week the drop in
Housing Starts subtracted an unweighted value of 3 from the Index Also the Advance Decline Line turned negative which subtracted an unweighted value of 1 from the Index
During the week Money - Zero Maturity the Producer Price Index PPI Housing Market Index Consumer Price Index CPI and Initial Jobless Claims remained ontrend and did not affect the
BullandBearWise Index
For the week the cumulative unweighted change was minus 4 resulting in the Index dropping to 5075
The indicators used in the BullandBearWise Index are weighted based on the table available at httpwwwbullandbearwisecomcalculationasp All bullish indicators are then summed and divided
into the sum of all the indicators When an indicator changes from bearish to bullish the Index increases 15 times the Weighting For example if Consumer Credit Weighting = 1 turns from
bearish to bullish the BullandBearWise Index would increase by 15