Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: European shares eased again as disappointing updates from technology issues like SAP left investors wrestling with worries over the quality of earnings as equity markets head into a new reporting season.
A new retreat of the dollar against the euro, oil prices holding above $45 a barrel and a mixed bag of news from retailers added to market woes, helping push the FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips 0.7 percent lower to 1,047.36 points.
The narrower DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 0.94 percent to 2,949.29 points.
FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4,258.01 points, down 49.36 or 1.15 percent.
PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,848.99 points, down 28.83 or 0.74 percent.
ZURICH STOCK EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,713.1 points, down 18.7 or 0.33 percent.
MILAN STOCK EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 23,516 points, down 284 or 1.19 percent.
SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE: Australian shares, which touched a record high for a third straight trading day, closed lower as a wider-than-expected monthly trade gap led investors to stray to the relative security of bonds. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index ended 2.2 points, or 0.05 percent, down to 4,072.7.
JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE: South African stocks closed a sliver higher as a miners like BHP Billiton held their ground on a steady rand. The All-share index closed at 12,664.89 points, up 1.44 or 0.01 percent. The All Gold index closed at 1,657.81 points, down 15.58 or 0.93 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 9,613.5 points, down 0.65 or 0.01 percent.