As for consumer prices, the year-on-year rate of increase in the CPI (excluding fresh food, on a nationwide basis) has been decelerating since autumn 2006, and the most recent data indicated that in February the CPI declined by 0.1 percent from a year earlier, posting negative growth for the first time since April 2006.
Here too, the bill contradicts the agreement. 1/2  BIS central bankers' speeches  The final thing that brought me here today is to refer to the manner in which some of you addressed Bank of Israel employees during the course of the discussions.