As a result, they began to shun almost any type of structured product, partly because the complexity of such products made it difficult for many market participants to understand these instruments and, therefore, to accurately price the risk that these products posed to financial institutions. In Canada, this included instruments such as ABCP.
Graph 2 The link between house price inflation and the CPI (annual percentage change)  2  BIS Review 7/2004  Central banks also pay attention to asset prices because they contain information that’s very useful when setting monetary policy. Normally asset prices reflect perceptions of future income streams that the assets will earn.