INFLATION rose to a three-year high of 3.5 percent in October, the government reported on Tuesday.

The result, attributed to higher non-food prices, picked up from September's 3.4 percent and the 2.3 percent recorded a year earlier. It brought year-to-date inflation to 3.2 percent, above the midpoint of the government’s 2 percent to 4 percent target.

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