Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Friday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares fell for the second straight day as a sustained rise in crude oil prices renewed profit margin fears and hit auto firms such as Porsche, while chemicals also weakened.
Even oil firms BP and Total eased, though they have notched up sharp rises so far this year, the DJ Stoxx oil and gas sector having picked up nearly 33 percent. The pan-European FTSEurofirst index of 300 blue chips closed 0.3 percent down at 1,192.7 points, off Wednesday's three-year high, but still ended the week with a gain of 1.6 percent.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4937.33 points, down 16.6 or 0.34 percent but up 110.15 on the week.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4476.48 points, down 32.62 or 0.72 percent but up 54.78 points since last Friday.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 6647.55 points, down 32.99 or 0.49 percent but up 39.86 in the last week.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 25831 points, down 91 or 0.35 percent but gaining 282 points since last Friday.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian shares climbed to a new closing high for the fifth straight day, led by the world's largest miner BHP Billiton, but the nation's top phone company Telstra Corp extended losses on its downbeat outlook.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index added 9.0 points, or 0.2 percent, to end at 4,469.2. The index gained 91.9 points since last weekend.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Resource stocks lifted the South African bourse buoyed by the surge in commodity prices and the end to crippling strike by gold miners, but banks and industrials fell on interest rates disappointment. The All-share index closed at 15775.9 points, up 66.12 or 0.42 percent and up on the week by 311.53.
The All Gold index closed at 1708.73 points, up 70.95 or 4.33 percent, and up 42.7 on the week. The Industrial index closed at 11489.68 points, down 25.89 or 0.22 percent but up by 29.78 points since last Friday.