Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: Oil prices simmering above $59 a barrel and weak bank stocks toppled European shares from three-year highs, but buoyant energy stocks and hopes of interest rate cuts in the eurozone helped limit market losses. A surge of crude prices to $59.23 a barrel rekindled concern that high energy costs would squeeze consumer spending and weigh on profit growth at companies such as fuel-hungry airlines - sending Air France shares 2.4 percent lower.
But it also raised hopes of more bumper profits at energy majors such as BP and Royal Dutch. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index ended 0.05 percent weaker at 1,139.1 points, having trimmed earlier losses of around 0.5 percent after a Reuters report that the European Central Bank is weighing a rate cut, depending on the trend for economic data.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4,586.86 points, down 17.71 or 0.38 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4,193.4 points, down 27.51 or 0.65 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6,236.79 points, down 26.68 or 0.43 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 24,649 points, down 289 or 1.16 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares broke a five-day winning streak, falling off record highs to close slightly down as miners like BHP Billiton unwound early gains and the financial sector weighed on the market. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 6.6 points, or 0.15 percent, to end at 4,305.6.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks marched to a new all-time high as brewer SABMiller reversed Friday's losses, but petrochemicals group Sasol slumped on profit taking. The All-share index closed at 14,345.63 points, up 19.04 or 0.13 percent. The All Gold index closed at 1,713.86 points, down 4.86 or 0.28 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 10,409.64 points, up 73.14 or 0.71 percent.