Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares fell as oil prices at their highest level in nearly a month fuelled fresh inflation worries, while resurgent valuation concerns weighed on mining stocks such as Anglo American.
Telecoms also stood out, with Virgin Mobile up 10 percent as UK cable TV company NTL offered to pay 817 million pounds ($1.42 billion) for it to create a TV, Internet, phone and mobile phone service provider under the Virgin brand.
BT and France Telecom, the owner of the Orange cell phone business, fell on concern about increased competition, but Vodafone reversed earlier losses to add 1.6 percent on news of the appointment of HSBC's outgoing chairman as its new chairman.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,266.86 points, down 41.13 or 0.77 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4,650.54 points, down 11.96 or 0.26 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 7,584.81 points, down 4.45 or 0.06 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 26,361 points, up 14 or 0.05 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian shares were flat with losses in Patrick Corp and general insurers offset by gains in miners like Rio Tinto and energy company Woodside Petroleum. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index added just 1.1 points, or 0.02 percent, to end at 4,624.6.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: A resurgent local currency slammed South African mining stocks as some investors switched to banks like FirstRand. The All-share index closed at 16,858.73 points, down 82.1 or 0.48 percent.
The All Gold index closed at 2,230.55 points, down 51.55 or 2.26 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 12,142.7 points, up 4.12 or 0.03 percent.