On Frankfurt's DAX, car manufacturer BMW was 1.1% lower, Bayer, a life science company, was down by 0.9% and Merck, a pharmaceutical company, was also 0.9% lower. The pan-European Stoxx 600 Index was 0.08% lower, London's FTSE 100 Index was down by 0.15%, Frankfurt's DAX was down by 0.20% and Paris' CAC-40 was 0.19% lower at the time of writing. Britain's consumer price index ( CPI ) posted annual growth of 3% in September, up from 2.9% in August, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics.