Business Week has published an article using information compiled by the Brookings Institution's MetroMonitor study.
The Brookings Institution ranked the 100 largest metros by averaging the ranks for four key indicators: employment change, unemployment change, gross metropolitan product, and home price change. Employment was measured by the change from the peak quarter for each metro to the second quarter of 2009. Houston ranked ninth overall, and was first in home price change year over year.
Five of the top ten metro areas are in Texas.
Read more here.