Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks rose as merger and acquisition speculation boosted a number of companies, including Nokia, while strong earnings propelled shares of Standard Chartered.
US light crude prices hit a record peak near $64 after a string of refinery outages, lifting heavyweight oil stocks on expectations that soaring prices would continue feeding bumper profits. BP closed up 1.7 percent, and Italy's ENI rose 1.5 percent.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.6 percent higher at 1,181.3 points, just eight points short of last week's three-year peak.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4837.86 points, up 10.68 or 0.22 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4441.01 points, up 19.31 or 0.44 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6634.34 points, up 26.65 or 0.40 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 25708 points, up 159 or 0.62 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian shares struck a new closing high as firm oil prices boosted Woodside Petroleum and rate sensitive banks and retailers got a boost from a less hawkish stance from the central bank. The benchmark Australian S&P/ASX 200 index rose 30.7 points, or 0.7 percent, to a new closing high of 4,407.9, smashing the previous best of 4,388.8 struck on July 29.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: A late surge in Africa's biggest retail bank Absa lifted Johannesburg stocks to a fresh high, but a strike by gold miners and poor results from world number six gold producer Harmony dragged the sector.
The All-share index closed at 15604.47 points, up 140.1 or 0.91 percent. The All Gold index closed at 1631.41 points, down 34.62 or 2.08 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 11463.01 points, up 3.11 or 0.03 percent.