european markets are heading for a lower open tuesday as attention turns to the us federal reserves latest policy meeting kicking off tuesday traders widely expect a 25 basis point increase but will monitor commentary for clues about how much further the fed intends to hike or when it plans to cut rates the fed will announce its interest rate decision wednesday european markets will be keeping an eye on fourthquarter eurozone gross domestic product data that will be published tuesday for a gauge on the regions state of health preliminary german and french inflation data for january is also due to be released