European markets have open in the green today, amid optimism over the US economy and following upbeat earnings updates from some European companies, including Vodafone and Henkel.

Closer home, data from the British Retail Consortium indicated that like-for-like retail sales in the UK remained unchanged in October. With no major economic releases in Europe and the US today, traders look forward to tomorrow’s UK employment data for further direction. Moreover, reports on GDP and consumer prices from Germany and the Eurozone along with US retail sales and consumer sentiment data due later in the week will attract market attention.

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