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  • Texas Economic Indicators

    The Texas economy expanded in August. Employment growth was strong, though the unemployment rate ticked up slightly and initial unemployment insurance claims were elevated in mid-September. The September Texas Business Outlook Surveys showed continued expansion in manufacturing but contraction in the service sector.

  • Texas Economy

    Texas service sector activity falters amid increased uncertainty

    Texas service sector activity contracted slightly in September, according to business executives responding to the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey.

  • Central bank swaps offer dollar crisis lifeline to non-U.S. banks

    Starting in late 2007, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with a few major foreign central banks, began offering central bank dollar liquidity swap lines as an important liquidity backstop.

  • Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey

    Texas factory activity continued to expand in September, albeit at a slower pace, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.

  • Lessons learned from Texas’ for-profit teacher certification

    Dallas Fed economist Christa Deneault discusses how teaching certifications earned from for-profit providers stack up against those earned through more conventional means in a conversation with the Dallas Fed's Pia Orrenius.

  • Agricultural Survey

    Bankers responding to the third-quarter agriculture survey reported somewhat better conditions across most regions of the Eleventh District.

  • Texas Employment Forecast

    The Texas Employment Forecast indicates jobs will increase 1.3 percent in 2025, with an 80 percent confidence band of 1.0 to 1.6 percent.

  • Energy Indicators

    Global oil inventories are expected to grow in 2025 as analysts expect flat demand growth and an increase in OPEC+ production. A majority of Dallas Fed Energy survey firms reported tariffs increased the cost of drilling new wells.

  • Austin doctor who leads equity firm aims to cure U.S. health care

    Garheng Kong, a physician by training who founded Austin-based HealthQuest Capital in 2012, discusses his outlook for the industry and why his firm is based in Austin.

  • Grading Texas education requires a closer look behind the numbers

    The adequacy of the Texas educational system, which enrolls more than 5.5 million children in public kindergarten-through-12 schools, has been a recurring source of concern in the state.