Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Friday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares ended the week with a five-day losing streak as a bigger-than-expected drop in US consumer sentiment highlighted the impact of record-high oil prices, with carmakers' shares among the hardest hit.
Shares in energy majors did not benefit from firm oil prices, however, amid worries that Hurricane Katrina could disrupt offshore crude oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, which evacuated some of its workers in the region, suffered a 1.3 percent drop in its shares.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 ended 0.7 percent weaker at 1,163.99, reversing earlier gains of 0.5 percent and pushing the index to its lowest closing level since July 22. This week's 2.6 percent slide left the index 3 percent below a three-year high of 1,199.87 points set on August 10.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4,783.8 points, down 72.21 or 1.49 percent and a fall of 146.11 since last Friday.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4,342.7 points, down 35.81 or 0.82 percent on the day and 145.20 lower over the week.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6,445.36 points, down 39.6 or 0.61 percent and a fall of 191.22 since last Friday.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 25,402 points, down 206 or 0.80 percent. The index lost 388 points over the week.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares rebounded, after falling 1.7 percent in the previous three days, as overnight gains on Wall Street and a climb offshore by index heavyweight BHP Billiton lured back investors. The S&P/ASX 200 index gained 28.0 points, or 0.63 percent, to end at 4,452.5. The index set a new peak on Monday, but fell 0.2 percent, or 9.1 points, on the week.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks dipped after US data hit global markets and telecom companies Telkom and MTN slid on news Telkom's cell phone business Vodacom planned to cut some tariffs. The all-share index dipped 84.15 or 0.55 percent to 15,298.74 points, down 326.85 points since last weekend.
The All Gold index closed at 1,631.99, down 10.18 or 0.62 percent, and lower on the week by 82.34 points. The Industrial index closed at 11,381.61, down 43.86 or 0.38 percent, having lost 257.74 points on the week.