US inflation holds at 2.7% in July

美国7月通胀率维持在2.7%

World Business Report

2025-08-13

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US inflation held steady in July despite import tariffs, bolstering bets that the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates next month. After the partial dollarisation of the economy in Cuba, the country’s peso is trading at an all-time low of 400 to 1 dollar on the informal market. And horror films are at a record high in shares of the US box office. Weapons took $42.5m in its opening weekend in US movie theatres, and Sinners has become the highest-grossing original movie of the 2020s.
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  • 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,