Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stock indices ended at their highest level in five months as bullish sales forecasts from Siebel Systems buoyed software makers while slightly lower oil prices also helped mend sentiment.
Data showing steady new orders at US factories, excluding transport equipment, also helped soothe market worries that sky-high oil prices was hampering economic growth and squeezing corporate profitability.
Technology shares, autos, and transports and leisure issues - some of the worst European performers so far this year - led blue-chip gainers as a perception that the market may have taken an overly pessimistic view on the economy pushed investors back to stocks recently punished for their high exposure to economic growth and high raw material costs.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4,033.28 points, up 38.32 or 0.96 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,767.06 points, up 36.9 or 0.99 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,600.9 points, up 72 or 1.30 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 21,501 points, up 114 or 0.53 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian stocks set a new peak after strong oil and metal prices sent BHP Billiton to a record high, while a healthy economic outlook lifted banks and media group News Corp.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ended up 34.1 points, or 0.93 percent, at 3,693.6.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: South African stocks retreated due to profit taking, the rand's failure to reach 6.50 to the dollar and weak metal prices after hitting record highs last week.
The All-share index closed at 11,795.02 points, down 76.8 or 0.65 percent.
The All Gold index closed at 2,049.75 points, down 40.14 or 1.92 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 8,225.19 points, up 29.54 or 0.36 percent.