European markets have opened mostly lower today, amid cautious trading, before the US Fed concludes its two-day monetary policy meeting tomorrow, and as investors eyed corporate earnings updates from several European corporations, due today.

Closer home, investors awaited UK consumer credit, M-4 money supply and mortgage approvals data, due later in the day.

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