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Texas and Louisiana Account for 46 Per Cent of This Year's $230 Billion Rise in U.S. Exports

U.S. goods exports in the first nine months of 2026 were $1.85 trillion, $230 billion or 14.2 per cent more than a year earlier, by our sum of Census Bureau state data. Texas and Louisiana supplied $105 billion of the increase. Exports fell in ten states, led by Alabama.

By Margaret Holloway 3 hours ago

The open ground floor of a coastal house in Pamlico County, North Carolina, its walls torn out by storm surge and broken concrete blocks scattered across the slab, with water beyond.

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Isaias Could Cost Insurers a Few Billion Dollars. Much of Its Flood Damage May Not Be Insured at All.

Gallagher Re puts insured losses from Hurricane Isaias in the low to mid-single-digit billions of dollars if it comes ashore at Category 1 or 2 strength, and says reinsurers have the capital to absorb that. The larger risk falls on households: in many inland counties, take-up of federal flood insurance is 2 to 5 per cent or less.

By Cory Chamberlain October 8, 2026

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Texas and Louisiana Account for 46 Per Cent of This Year's $230 Billion Rise in U.S. Exports

Isaias Could Cost Insurers a Few Billion Dollars. Much of Its Flood Damage May Not Be Insured at All.