Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks inched higher after a four-day break as investors cheered Nordic telecoms operator TeliaSonera's deal to buy a stake in Turkcell and shrugged off mixed US consumer sentiment data.
Take-over talk was rife, with Rentokil up 3.3 percent as news of a bid for Danish rival ISS fanned bid fever throughout the cleaning and service sector. Dutch bank ABN Amro shed 1.4 percent on continued speculation it might bid soon for Italy's Banca Antonveneta.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4351.89 points, up 8.29 or 0.19 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4081.65 points, up 3.34 or 0.08 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5959.76 points, up 24.31 or 0.41 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 24534 points, up 31 or 0.13 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian stocks fell to their lowest close in a month as investors, jittery over the prospect of a second rate rise in as many months, extended the market's slide from a record high close last week to 4 percent. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index shed 40.8 points or nearly one percent to end at 4095.6.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: South African shares nudged north as a weaker rand buoyed mining and industrial stocks and cell phone company MTN rose amid speculation it could become a take-over target. The All-share index closed at 13214.11, up 22.64 points or 0.17 percent, the Gold index closed at 1653.94, down 23.32 points or 1.39 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 9698.05, up 31.88 points or 0.33 percent.