UK and European stocks are slightly higher this morning despite a slide on Wall Street on Monday. US technology stocks were hit particularly hard with heavyweights like Apple, Alphabet etc down more than 2%.

Chinese property giant Evergrande missed another interest rate payment.

Markets will be looking ahead to Friday’s US non-farm payrolls data for September which may give investors clues re the Fed’s taper timeline.

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