Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European shares closed slightly higher, hovering at one-month highs, with German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp adding 4 percent after saying it would buy back up to 5 percent of its stock. Trading volumes were among the lowest this year as US markets were closed for the Independence Day holiday. Also limiting the gains, auto stocks dipped on lacklustre sales data and worries over a Renault tie-up.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares closed 0.19 percent up at 1,321.5 points.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,729.01 points, up 16.32 or 0.29 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 4,983.88 points, up 3.26 or 0.07 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 7,727.8 points, up 7.12 or 0.09 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 28,132 points, up 40 or 0.14 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares rose 0.25 percent, as optimism over US interest rates helped shopping mall owner Westfield Group, but rubber gloves maker fell after reining in profit expectations. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index added 12.5 points to 5,104.7, rising for a fourth straight day to end at a fresh one-month closing peak.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: World number two platinum producer Impala Platinum led South Africa stocks lower after it announced its chief executive was leaving, while industrials starred as concerns over interest rates faded. The All-share index closed at 21,368.16 points, down 32.27 or 0.15 percent. The All Gold index closed at 3,365.49 points, up 42.5 or 1.28 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 13,693.86 points, down 7.17 or 0.05 percent.