美国工厂，农场主和其他生产商的生产者价格7月急剧下跌。生产者价格与上个月相比下降0.9%, 比去年同期下降6.8%。价格的下降将缓解通货膨胀的压力，这意味着美国的经济官员们能够保持现行的低利率。
美国中央银行通过降低利率来刺激经济，但是通过提高利率来抑制通货膨胀。另一个报告显示，美国7月份的新房开工率降低1%，下降主要是公寓楼的开发。多户家庭房屋建造急剧下跌13%。而单户住宅的开工略有增长。
Prices paid to U.S. factories, farmers, and other producers posted a sharp drop in July.
Producer prices dropped nine-tenths of a percent for the month, and were down a record 6.8 percent from the same period a year earlier.Dropping prices will ease worries about inflation, and are likely to mean that U.S. economic officials can keep interest rates at their current very low level.
The U.S. central bank cuts interest rates to boost the economy, but raises them to fight inflation.A separate report shows U.S. builders broke ground on one percent fewer homes in July, with most of the decline in apartment construction.Multifamily units were down a sharp 13 percent, while single-family homes managed to post a modest increase.