European markets have opened mixed today, as investors grew concerned that Washington’s budget deadlock and its failure to raise debt limit ceiling might impact the world’s biggest economy.

With no release of major domestic economic data during the day, investors await the release of Eurozone producer prices data and speeches from several US Federal Reserve policymakers, due later in the day.

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