In Brief: October car sales; MG Rover; Fin Min cuts inflation forecast

According to preliminary estimates, the number of new cars sold in October exceeded 27,000. In comparison with September this year, sales have increased by 12.2% (Puls Biznesu, p. 5) ... Deputy Economy Minister Maciej Lesny has announced that MG Rover has filed for exclusivity rights over a share of- and investments in- the New Small Company to be created from the remnants of ailing motor concern Daewoo-FSO. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 3) ... The Finance Ministry has announced in a statement that month-on-month inflation was seen at 0.2% in October. Earlier yesterday the department's chief analyst, Jacek Krzyslak also said the ministry had cut its average annual inflation forecast for 2002 by 0.1 points to 2%. (Reuters) A.Z.