Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Friday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares pared intra-day gains to close little changed as weaker-than-expected US durable goods data raised worries about slower global growth, with interest rate concerns also lingering. Insurers Axa and Allianz, and banks Barclays and Lloyds fell and offset a rise in oil firms which tracked crude oil prices. The pan-European FTSEurofirst index of 300 leading shares ended up 0.1 percent at 1,283.1 points, after finishing the previous session at its highest level in two weeks.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,529.74 points, down 3.68 or 0.07 percent, a rise of 153.73 points since June 16.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4,817.63 points, up 14.34 or 0.30 percent, 122.74 points higher on the week.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 7,485.8 points, up 2.47 or 0.03 percent, gaining 191.25 points from a week ago.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 27,235 points, up 103 or 0.38 percent. The index gained 349 points over the week.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Top miners and insurers led the share market down, after interest rate jitters and signs of slowing economic growth in the United States knocked Wall Street. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index gave up 45.9 points, or 0.92 percent, to close at 4,964.9, losing 4.1 points since last Friday.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Imperial sunk 7 percent as industrial, retail and bank shares sent the market lower on jitters that interest rates would rise after the rand hovered around a 2-1/2 year trough. The All-share index closed at 20,499.83 points, down 196.83 or 0.95 percent but rising 800.89 points on the week. The All Gold index closed at 3,012.28 points, up 45.86 or 1.55 percent, up 497.43 points from a week ago. The Industrial index closed at 13,248.66 points, down 333.17 or 2.45 percent, down 143.65 points from last Friday.