European markets have opened higher today, as traders await US non-farm payrolls data which is widely expected to show that US job growth accelerated in March.

Closer home, data from Halifax indicated that on a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, house prices in the UK dropped 1.1% in March, compared to a revised 2.5% rise in the previous month.

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