Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares ended on a mixed note as sky-high oil prices and heavy losses by GlaxoSmithKline and other drug-makers overshadowed mining stocks bolstered by base metal prices near multi-year peaks.
Tyre makers Continental and Michelin, and car parts firm Valeo shed between 1.3 and 3.3 percent on concerns that surging raw materials costs would eat into their profits. US crude prices rocketed to $53 a barrel.
The FTSE euro-first 300 index of pan European blue chips eased 0.1 percent to end at 1,014.6 points, off from an earlier five-month high of 1,021.15 points.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4,043.36 points, down 6.3 or 0.16 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,758.7 points, down 5.89 or 0.16 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,534.7 points, down 59.2 or 1.06 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 21,607 points, up 61 or 0.28 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks ended flat, weighed down by weakness in the country's "big four" banks, but Oil Search soared as its outlook brightened on the back of developments in a key gas project.
The S&P/ASX 200 index ended up 1.0 point, or 0.03 percent, at 3,700.8.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: South Africa's bourse hit a record closing high as mining stocks led the charge on a softer rand and iron ore producer Kumba pledged brighter earnings.
The all-share index shot up 162.27 or 1.36 percent to a record 12,087.27 points - its highest ever close.
The All Gold index closed at 2,167.7 points, up 33.7 or 1.58 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 8,366.11 points, up 83.26 or 1.01 percent.