Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: European shares rose, led by a recovery in battered insurance shares on hopes that the fallout from a US probe into suspected bid-rigging would be less dramatic than feared, while a softer euro boosted autos.
Advertising agency WPP Group rallied 3.1 percent and pushed up the media sector after the company's third-quarter revenue growth beat analysts' expectations. British oil major BP lost 1.2 percent to 531 pence as the company's higher capital expenditure plans stoked worries about the extent of its future share buybacks even as BP reported bumper third-quarter profits.
FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 3,862.26 points, up 7.85 or 0.20 percent.
PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,619.48 points, up 10.42 or 0.29 percent.
ZURICH STOCK EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,330 points, up 20.3 or 0.38 percent.
MILAN STOCK EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 21,368 points, up 27 or 0.13 percent.
SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE: Australian shares closed 0.63 percent higher, supported by gains in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp after the media giant won shareholder approval for its move to the United States.
The benchmark ASX/S&P 200 Index rose 23.4 points to close at 3,704.9.
JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE: South African stocks shot up on the back of an interim budget statement that relaxed foreign exchange controls while steel maker Ispat Iscor touched a fresh all-time peak.
The All-share index closed at 11,793.27 points, up 170.84 or 1.47 percent.
The All Gold index closed at 2,075.5 points, up 8.22 or 0.40 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 8,413.44 points, up 65.7 or 0.79 percent.