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  • Dallas Fed Economics

    Mexican peso strength noteworthy among emerging markets during Fed tightening

    Many emerging-market currencies have depreciated modestly during the Federal Reserve’s tightening cycle that began in March 2022. The Mexican peso, however, outperformed the group during the period.

  • Laredo

    Trade boom tests Laredo’s border

    Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan's 360° Listening Tour is taking her to communities all around the Eleventh Federal Reserve District to deepen her understanding of the region’s people and economy.

  • Shreveport

    Shreveport works to plug 'brain drain'

    President Lorie Logan's 360° Listening Tour is taking her to communities all around the Eleventh Federal Reserve District during her first year at the Dallas Fed. The tour is helping deepen her understanding of the region’s people and economy by adding color and perspective that go beyond official statistics.

  • Dallas Fed Economics

    Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China

    Mexico's emergence followed fractious U.S. relations with China, which had moved past Canada to claim the top trading spot in 2014. The dynamic changed in 2018 when the U.S. imposed tariffs on China’s goods and with subsequent pandemic-era supply-chain disruptions that altered international trade and investment flows worldwide.

  • Corpus Christi

    Corpus Christi’s export hub is about to get busier

    During her first year at the Dallas Fed, President Lorie Logan is visiting communities all around the Eleventh Federal Reserve District.

  • Southwest Economy

    Mexico awaits ‘nearshoring’ shift as China boosts its direct investment

    When it comes to trading goods with the United States, Mexico would appear a logical sourcing alternative to China. Before the pandemic, increasing friction between the U.S. and China—the top supplier of goods imports to the U.S. in 2019—contributed to an anticipated “nearshoring” shift among companies dependent on Asia.

  • Working Paper

    On the Distributional Effects of International Tariffs

    This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the distributional effects of the 2018 increase in tariffs by the U.S. and its major trading partners.

  • Dallas Fed Economics

    Capital flowed from emerging markets as pandemic, economic cycle took hold

    Fluctuations in the global financial cycle, reflecting impacts from the COVID crisis, account for roughly one-third of the movement in emerging-market inflows during 2020–23.

  • Dallas Fed Economics

    Trade diversion has helped ease the impact of the embargo on Russian oil

    Much has been made about the effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the price of oil. However, the price of oil was already drifting upward well before the invasion in late February 2022.

  • Economic Education

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