On the first Friday of every month, the U.S. government releases its Non-Farm Payrolls data from the month prior. The data is more commonly known as “the jobs report” and it swings a big stick on Wall Street. Especially now — many analysts believe job growth is tightly linked to the future of the U.S. economy.
A Pending Home Sale is a home that is under contract to sell, but not yet sold. It’s a figure compiled by an industry group using sales data from over 100 regional listing services and more than 60 large brokerages around the country.