The Dallas Fed conducts recurring surveys of over 900 business executives in manufacturing, services, energy, and ag lending across Texas and the broader Eleventh Federal Reserve District.

The Weekly Economic Index (WEI) provides a signal of the state of the U.S. economy based on data available at a daily or weekly frequency. It represents the common component of 10 different daily and ...

The Dallas Fed conducts the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey monthly to obtain a timely assessment of the state's service sector activity. Firms are asked whether revenue, employment, prices, ...

Note: This Texas Employment Forecast was delayed from its scheduled Oct. 16 release due to data processing issues. The Texas Employment Forecast projects jobs will increase 0.9 percent in 2026, with ...

DALLAS—The Texas Employment Forecast released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas indicates jobs will increase 0.9 percent in 2026, with an 80 percent confidence band of 0.6 to 1.2 percent. This ...

Our Houston Branch serves southeast Texas, including most of the oil refining and petrochemical facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast. Energy, shipping, trade and health care are important industries.

Our San Antonio Branch serves South Texas from Austin to the Rio Grande Valley. The region’s diverse economy includes tourism, government, technology, music, higher education and trade.

The Dallas Fed improves the quality of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ payroll employment estimates for Texas using early benchmarking and two-step seasonal adjustment. For more information on these ...

This paper exploits bilateral remittance flows between U.S. and Mexican states during 2013–25 to construct and validate a multi-source origin–destination framework linking Banco de México’s U.S.-state ...

China’s private sector debt ballooned from 2008 through 2016, among the largest and most sustained such increases historically. Notably, this Chinese credit growth was financed entirely from domestic ...

Texas experienced an unprecedented surge in new real estate salespeople in the months after the start of the pandemic, a period of rapidly increasing home prices and low interest rates. In the years ...

Global refinery capacity has declined by as much as 10 percent amid mounting transportation challenges and geopolitical tensions. They include closure of the Strait of Hormuz, attacks from Houthi ...