Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Hearing and on this edition,
inflation in the US doesn't seem to be rising by as much as feared, at least not yet.
In Cuba, the partial dollarisation of the economy sends their own peso currency tumbling.
Also,
how North Korean workers in Russia are being exploited and why horror movies are thriving at the box office.
As a diversion.
horror.
It's escapism.
It's often so outlandish that you can sit back and think,
I'm going to forget about what's going on in the news and just enjoy myself.
But first,
after all the warnings that the US might see inflation rising as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs policies,
the latest Consumer Prices Index figure just out suggests prices rose just 2.7% in the year to July.
It seems to reflect a drop in petrol prices and no increase in food costs.
But what's called core inflation, which excludes those items,
saw prices rise by the most since January.
Despite this,
the president posted on social media tariffs have not caused inflation or any other problems for country.
A point amplified by the White House press secretary,