Closing stock market indices

Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,642.16 points, down 98.09 or 1.71 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,744.45 points, down 63.79 or 1.68 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6,303.35 points, down 74.71 or 1.17 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The FT IT All Share index closed at 23,509.04 points, down 415.41 or 1.74 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares slipped 0.6 percent as investors awaited earnings from major banks and after disappointing results from US industrial companies sent Wall Street lower. The S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 29.1 points at 4,830.3, after gaining 1 percent on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: The rand fell to a 3-week low against the dollar on worries that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will announce a bigger fiscal deficit while bond yields rose to 3-month highs.
The All-share index closed at 26,910.08 points, up 108.01 or 0.40 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,603.53 points, up 14.44 or 0.56 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 21,041.96 points, up 64.96 or 0.31 percent.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's financial markets were closed on Monday for the Chung Yeung Festival. They will reopen on Tuesday. On Friday, the Hang Seng Index rose 379.21 points to end at 22,589.73, its highest close since August 1, 2008.