Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE: A late slump in oil prices helped European stocks close at three-week highs with British Airways leading a rise in airlines, but Dutch bank ABN AMRO fell after a weak operating outlook. Heavyweight oil groups BP and Total pared gains but still provided support to the market.
Miners BHP Billiton and Anglo American recovered partially from last week's sharp losses, which were triggered by China's surprise interest rate hike to cool its economy. The FTSE Eurofirst 300 index ended 0.88 percent higher at 1,006.9 points - its highest close in three weeks. The index finished just off the intra-day high of 1,008.27.
FRANKFURT: The DAX index ended at 4,012.64 points, up 52.39 or 1.32 percent.
PARIS: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,734.07 points, up 27.25 or 0.74 percent.
ZURICH: The Swiss market index closed at 5,422.3 points, up 58.9 or 1.10 percent.
MILAN: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 21,915 points, up 200 or 0.92 percent.
SYDNEY: Australia's key stocks index ended at a record high close as cheery sentiment over St George, the latest bank to post robust earnings, overtook uncertainty ahead of the US presidential ballot. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed 12.5 points or 0.33 percent up at 3,791.2.
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's bourse closed higher, buoyed by a surge in the gold price and a recovery in resource heavyweights such as Anglo American plc and BHP Billiton after last week's sell-off. The All-share index closed at 11,768.52 points, up 113.21 or 0.97 percent. The All Gold index closed at 1,944.16 points, up 10.48 or 0.54 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 8,603.58 points, up 77.32 or 0.91 percent.