Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday.
EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: European shares recorded their biggest daily points fall since the July 7 London bombings, as interest rate worries sapped sentiment and oil prices at two-month lows pressured oil heavyweights. Cadbury Schweppes's profit warning added to market woes.
News the world's largest confectionery group was unlikely to meet its 2005 margin goal due to rising costs hit rival food groups like Nestle and Unilever. But mining stocks bucked the weak market trend, with Anglo American and Rio Tinto up 3.7 percent and 2.5 percent respectively, as the dollar's weakness against the euro pushed gold prices higher.
FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,017.27 points, down 52.15 or 1.03 percent.
PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4,536.9 points, down 57.21 or 1.25 percent.
ZURICH STOCK EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6,939.21 points, down 87.15 or 1.24 percent.
MILAN STOCK EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 26,155 points, down 245 or 0.93 percent.
SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE: The Australian share market fell, recording its biggest two-day percentage fall in over four years, with stocks geared to US growth, like construction company Rinker, leading the decline on inflation worries. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index ended down 96.2 points, or 2.12 percent, at 4,447.3.
JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE: Investors sold off South African stocks on worries about global growth, but gold shares like Harmony surged on a rebound in prices of the precious metal. The All-share index closed at 16,298.13 points, down 291.83 or 1.76 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,116.49 points, up 54.13 or 2.62 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 11,943.92 points, down 357 or 2.90 percent.