Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks retreated after a three-day winning run, hit by losses in pharmaceuticals such as Novartis after the Swiss drugmaker reported weaker-than-expected sales.
Losses in Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithkline, and in banks HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland also weighed on the market, while US stocks fell.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading shares closed 0.6 percent weaker at 1,388.9 points, an intra-day low. The index is off a near five-year high of 1,397.4 points struck on Friday.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 6,079.09 points, down 15.66 or 0.26 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 5,221.44 points, down 30.94 or 0.59 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 8,076.25 points, down 17.22 or 0.21 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 29,673 points, down 262 or 0.88 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares firmed 0.38 percent as a recovery in global metal prices revived confidence in the big miners such as BHP Billiton, while ANZ Banking Group Ltd rose ahead of half-year earnings.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index added 19.7 points to 5,269.8, after falling in the past two trading days.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Bargain-hunters lifted Anglo Platinum 5 percent higher to help boost South African stocks, but the country's big four banks remained in the doldrums as an official probe into their charges weighed.
The All-share index closed at 21,046.62 points, up 17.6 or 0.08 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,979.95 points, down 0.31 or 0.01 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 14,479.29 points, up 14.93 or 0.10 percent.