Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: Fresh interest rate worries pushed European shares to their worst closing level in two weeks, with economically-sensitive sectors such as basic producers, car makers and construction hit harder.
There was one stock riser for every 10 declining issues, but BAA was part of the rare gainers, closing 2.2 percent higher after the world's biggest airports operator agreed to a 10.1-billion-pound ($18.9 billion) take-over bid from a consortium led by Spain's Grupo Ferrovial.
Europe's FTSEurofirst 300 index shed 1.9 percent to 1,280.55 points, bringing to 9 percent the index's overall losses since hitting a five-year high of in early May.
FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5502.81 points, down 118.38 or 2.11 percent.
PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4797.92 points, down 118.12 or 2.40 percent.
ZURICH STOCK EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 7497.02 points, down 168.06 or 2.19 percent.
MILAN STOCK EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 27459 points, down 556 or 1.98 percent.
SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE: Australian shares shed 1.6 percent as companies geared to US growth such as building products maker Rinker fell on concerns that higher interest rates in the United States would crimp demand. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index lost 83.9 points to close at 5,036.1.
JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE: South African stocks posted their biggest one-day fall in more than four years as a weaker gold price hit miners and renewed worries about rising US interest rates hurt broader sentiment. The All-share index closed at 20007.75 points, down 848.67 or 4.07 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2730.52 points, down 156.87 or 5.43 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 13599.18 points, down 596.16 or 4.20 percent.
SEOUL STOCK EXCHANGE: South Korean financial markets were closed on Tuesday for a public holiday and will reopen on Wednesday. Seoul stock market's main KOSPI index closed down 0.57 percent at 1,301.62 points on Monday, while the benchmark five-year treasury bond yield rose one basis point to finish at 4.90 percent.