European markets have opened higher today, as investors cheered the deal on forming a coalition between Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the Social Democrats.

Closer home, the UK third-quarter GDP, government spending and total business investment and CBI survey of retail sales data later today, would be on investors’ radar, to gauge the strength in the nation’s economic growth.

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