Inflation rose in a number of German states in November, preliminary data showed on Thursday, suggesting that the national inflation rate would also increase as forecast. In Bavaria, the annual inflation rate rose in November to 2.6% from 2.4% the previous month. It inched up in Brandenburg to 1.9% from 1.8%, in Saxony to 2.9% from 2.8%, in Hesse to 2.0% from 1.8%, and in Baden-Wuerttemberg to 2.2% from 2.1%. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, bucked the regional trend: inflation there fell slightly to 1.9% from 2.0% in October.