Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares crept to a two-month closing high, boosted by tech stocks and other sectors most exposed to the global economic cycle but trade was lacklustre with the United States on holiday.
Shares in German Internet provider T-Online surged 4.2 percent on speculation parent company Deutsche Telekom might buy out minority shareholders, but Italy's Banca Intesa retreated 2.5 percent after its half-year results failed to deliver the big positive surprise some investors had been looking for.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.4 percent firmer at 992.7 points, its highest closing level since July 2 and some 6.2 percent above its 2004 low hit last month.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 3,887.58 points, up 20.59 or 0.53 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,673.03 points, up 7.09 or 0.19 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,542.4 points, up 39.9 or 0.73 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 20,881 points, up 9 or 0.04 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian stocks struggled to find any momentum, with the key index finishing barely changed as investors awaited Wall Street to resume trading after the Labour Day long weekend.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.4 points or 0.01 percent to 3,576.9.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Banking group Investec hit a two-month peak, outperforming a listless South African blue chip top 40 stock index, as investors switched into the share as take-over talk around the country's four big retail banks died down.
The All-share index closed at 11,244.21 points, up 20.3 or 0.18 percent.
The All Gold index closed at 1,902.5 points, down 2.81 or 0.15 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 7,872.43 points, up 26.24 or 0.33 percent.