European markets have opened lower today, as investors traded with caution and avoided large bets, as US lawmakers struggle to reach consensus before the deadline of 30 September 2013, to avoid a Government shutdown.

Closer home, investors await the release of CBI’s distributive trade survey data, due later today, t o determine the market direction.

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