Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: Pan-European share indexes closed down more than half a percent as results from Nordic bank Handelsbanken weighed on financial shares and energy companies fell as crude prices whipsawed around $65 a barrel. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.6 percent weaker at 1,186.7 points.
FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4917.74 points, down 23.95 or 0.48 percent.
PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4436.56 points, down 49.38 or 1.10 percent.
ZURICH STOCK EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6565.32 points, down 57.97 or 0.88 percent.
MILAN STOCK EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 25649 points, down 175 or 0.68 percent.
SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE: Australian shares fell, retreating from Monday's record levels, as the world's biggest miner BHP slipped from an all-time high and steel maker BlueScope warned of cost pressures. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 14.4 points, or 0.32 percent, to 4,484.9.
JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE: South Africa's Naspers and miner Harmony Gold dragged the South African bourse lower as investors sold off stocks on fears that oil prices would hurt many companies' earnings. The top-40 index of blue chip stocks fell 0.11 percent to 14,190.88 points while the all-share index closed near-flat at 0.03 percent lower at 15,675.66 points.