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Texas Economic Indicators, November 2025
The Texas economy decelerated toward the end of 2025. Employment fell in October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up from September.
January 23, 2026
Denton leaders ’cautiously optimistic‘ about growing city’s economy
Business and civic leaders told Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan that Denton has become a destination for business expansion due to the location in the northwest corner of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area and the regular supply of graduates.
January 23, 2026
Mexican residents favor local retailers over cross-border shopping in Texas
Despite a relatively stable peso-dollar exchange rate that would normally favor shopping in the U.S., Mexican consumers increasingly stay closer to home.
January 16, 2026
El Paso Economic Indicators, January 2026
Employment in El Paso contracted in November, and the unemployment rate ticked down. Year over year, wages increased while home prices fell and inventories rose.
January 16, 2026
Real-time house price model shows U.S. housing market firming
House prices matter to more than just individual homebuyers and sellers. They are closely tied to consumer spending, business investment and the broader path of the economy.
January 15, 2026
Eleventh District Beige Book
Economic activity in the Eleventh District held steady over the reporting period. Little change was seen in manufacturing, retail, nonfinancial services, and real estate.
January 14, 2026
New data show intensifying unauthorized immigration decline, with large local variations
A sudden reversal in U.S. net unauthorized immigration has important implications for the demographic outlook, labor force participation, employment growth and local labor markets.
January 13, 2026
Weak Instrument Bias in Impulse Response Estimators
This paper approximates the finite-sample distribution of impulse response function (IRF) estimators that are just-identified with a weak instrument using the conventional local-to-zero asymptotic framework.
January 12, 2026
Texas Employment Forecast, January 9
The Texas Employment Forecast implies that employment growth was around zero in 2025, with an 80 percent confidence band of -0.3 to 0.3 percent.
January 9, 2026
Higher interest rates transform housing market, Texas real estate workforce
A pandemic-era period of relatively low interest rates and rising house prices drew a record number of new real estate agents to the field. Home prices have since remained high, but elevated interest rates and slowing sales have made the industry less attractive.
January 7, 2026