Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares rose more than half a percent, bouncing back from losses late last week, lifted by mining stocks, merger and acquisition activity and data suggesting the US housing market was stabilising.
The dollar rebounded from a 20-month low against the euro, providing some relief for dollar-earning European exporters, and the oil price fell by more than $1 per barrel. The FTSEurofirst 300 index closed 0.62 percent higher at 1,429.95 points.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 6,295.23 points, up 54.1 or 0.87 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 5,296.08 points, up 42.03 or 0.80 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 8,479.39 points, up 59.06 or 0.70 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 30,908 points, up 127 or 0.41 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares were little changed, but take-over target Qantas Airways Ltd rose on hopes of a high takeover bid by a Macquarie Bank Ltd led consortium. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index lost 3.0 points, or 0.06 percent, to close at 5,424.9.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks edged up a whisker as glass packaging firm Consol jumped after saying it received a private equity takeoff offer but Super Group slumped after take-over talks were axed. The All-share index closed at 24,073.2 points, up 2.28 or 0.01 percent. The All Gold index closed at 3,076.02 points, up 0.5 or 0.02 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 16,571.94 points, down 36.73 or 0.22 percent.