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  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates jobs will increase 1.7 percent in 2025, with an 80 percent confidence band of 1.1 to 2.3 percent.

  • Texas’ economic outlook deteriorates as tariff-related uncertainty builds

    While lagging indicators reflect resilient growth for the Texas economy, more recent survey data suggest diminished momentum amid elevated uncertainty about the outlook.

  • Waco building on ‘Fixer Upper,’ Baylor notoriety to reinvent itself

    Malcolm Duncan, whose tenure as Waco mayor coincided with the city’s emergence as a destination and area economic hub, discusses how the city has changed and where its future fortunes and challenges lie.

  • Energy Indicators

    Energy executives surveyed by the Dallas Fed reported an increase in the price of oil needed to justify drilling, as economic uncertainty and planned production increases from OPEC+ nations pushed oil prices down.

  • Texas Economic Indicators

    The Texas economy expanded in March. Employment and earnings both rose. The April Texas Business Outlook Surveys showed a notable decline in company outlooks.

  • Texas Economy

    Growth resumes in Texas service sector, but company outlooks deteriorated further

    Texas service sector activity grew slightly in April, according to business executives responding to the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey. The revenue index, a key measure of state service sector conditions, rose three points to 3.8, indicating a small increase in revenue.

  • Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey

    Texas factory activity continued to rise in April. The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions, was largely unchanged. Other measures of manufacturing activity signaled contraction, however.

  • Job cyclicality provides timely signals on Texas, U.S. business cycle

    The cyclicality of industries and their behavior provide early indications of economic turning points in Texas and the U.S. and provide a timelier view than other data that are widely used to confirm downturns and expansions.

  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates jobs will increase 1.5 percent in 2025, with an 80 percent confidence band of 0.8 to 2.2 percent.

  • Water restrictions, conservation a 24/7 routine in Abilene and the Big Country

    Steve Estes, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent for Taylor County, offers his perspective on how ranchers, farmers and city dwellers can collectively work to ensure that the area makes the best decisions regarding precious water resources