European markets opened higher today, mirroring gains in the US and Asian equity markets, amid indication that the US lawmakers might soon reach a deal to increase debt limit and put an end to the partial Government shutdown.

Closer home, investors await the release of UK consumer prices, producer prices and retail prices data, due later in the day.

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