Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure held steady at 2.5% in July

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The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation held steady at 2.5 per cent in the year to July, according to data released on Friday that paves the way for the US central bank to start cutting interest rates next month.

The personal consumption expenditures price index compared with economists’ expectations of a 2.6 per…