Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Friday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: Miners led European shares lower on signs that China's voracious appetite for metals will slow, as record crude oil prices stoked concern over global recovery while helping oil groups flirt with 2004 peaks.
The market's defensive trend continued as investors put money into utilities and healthcare firms such as Suez and GlaxoSmithKline to shield themselves from higher interest rates.
Surprisingly strong eurozone economic growth in the first quarter, hitting its fastest pace in three years, failed to stop the DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index of blue chips slipping to its lowest point for the year.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index of pan-European blue chips ended down 0.7 percent at 973.1 points.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 3803.10 points, down 21.83 or 0.57 percent on the day, and worse off by 92.54 this week.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3603.26 points, down 10.98 or 0.30 percent, losing 49.92 since last Friday.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5685 points, down 29.6 or 0.52 percent, losing 142.7 on the week.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 20513 points, down 54 or 0.26 percent, and 227 points lower since May 7.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian stocks finished weaker after a big fall in ANZ Bank shares as they went ex-dividend and losses in the other three big banks as investors considered the interest rate outlook.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 0.3 percent or 11.3 points to close at 3359.5, falling 33.7 over the week.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: South African shares ended sharply lower, hurt by the rand's rise against the dollar, which hurts the country's big exporters like mining giant Anglo American, traders said.
The All-share index closed at 9766.72 points, down 264.47 or 2.64 percent and down on the week by 641.18 points.
The All Gold index closed at 1774.18 points, down 26.92 or 1.49 percent, and lower by 60.69 since last Friday.
The Industrial index closed at 6963.91 points, down 169.05 or 2.37 percent, and worse off by 455.77 points on the week.