In the UK, inflation rose 11.1% in October, the highest inflation in 41 years, and the Associated Press announced that it is “not yet peaking”. The UK's National Bureau of Statistics announced on the 16th that consumer prices rose 11.1% in October, the highest since October 1981, and a big jump from 10.1% in September. A Reuters poll of economists showed a rise of 10.7%, and economists announced..