In recent days it was reported that pending home sales rose 6% in April.
Pending home sales are out on Wednesday, and then GDP and jobless claims on Thursday.
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Thursday features revised second-quarter productivity, July pending home sales and the August Monster Worldwide employment index.
These will be followed Friday by personal income, consumer sentiment and pending home sales.
Monday : The economic calendar kicks off with construction spending and pending home sales on Monday.
On Wednesday, we get more news on housing, with pending home sales data for April.
Tuesday: Pending home sales and wholesale inventories are slated for release after the market open.
And pending home sales, although still 19.1% below August of last year, were up 5.2% in August.
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U.S. economic data due for release Monday includes pending home sales index and the Texas manufacturing survey.
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The following day we got much better data on housing as pending home sales jumped over 5%.
Stocks are mixed midday on drop in pending home sales and unexpectedly positive durable goods orders for December.
Thursday brings the GDP readings for the first quarter, as well as jobless claims and pending home sales.
Perhaps more daunting than the existing home sales statistics are pending home sales.
Unemployment Claims in the US shot up, Manufacturing slipped down, and US Pending Home Sales fell off a cliff.
On Wednesday comes the latest reading on durable goods and pending home sales.
In U.S. economic news, pending home sales for February fell 0.4%, a touch more than expectations for a 0.3% decline.
Then, data showed that October pending home sales rose 10.4% vs. the 2% expected, the biggest jump since November 2010.
In May, as many expected, pending home sales declined 30% and are down more than 15% on a year-over-year basis.
Pending home sales and jobless claims are also scheduled for Thursday, with the personal income data finishing the week on Friday.
Finally, pending home sales also improved in November 2012, rising 1.7% for the month and nearly 10% on a year-over-year basis.
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Back in the U.S., pending home sales hit a three-year high in March, data released by the National Association of Realtors showed.
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Pending Home Sales and the Dallas Manufacturing Survey are out on Monday.
Pending Home Sales unexpectedly fell 11.6% in April, to a 7 month low, a negative for actual sales in May and June.
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This week, we get more data on the housing market with pending home sales on Tuesday, followed by new home sales on Thursday.
And to top it all off, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index slipped 1.8% to 80.9 in September.
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New home sales plunged a totally unexpected 11% in January, existing home sales were down an unexpected 7.2%, pending home sales fell 7.6%.
U.S. economic data due for release Monday includes the Chicago Fed national activity index, pending home sales and the Texas manufacturing outlook survey.
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The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales when a contract has been agreed on but not completed rose by 6.3% in December.
From the important housing industry it was reported that new home sales fell 2.3% in August, and pending home sales fell again, down 1.2%.
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Pending home sales represent pending sales of existing homes where a contract has been signed but the transaction has officially not been closed yet.
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