Price Developments Now I will move on to price developments. The year-on-year rate of change in the consumer price index (CPI) has continued to show relatively weak developments compared to the economic expansion and the labor market tightening, and that excluding fresh food and energy prices has been at around 0.5 percent (Chart 7).
To give you a concrete example: taking into account the impact of securitisation, the annual growth of MFI loans to non-financial corporations turned positive already in October 2010, some months ahead of what had been shown by the figures available in the previous version of the statistics. Second, we now have detailed quarterly data on the balance sheet of insurance corporations and pension funds.