Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks fell from their strongest levels in 2-1/2 months struck in the previous session, as company earnings came in mixed, with HSBC beating estimates but rival bank ABN Amro disappointing.
Bayer lost 1.4 percent, hit by news that its new acquisition, German drugs firm Schering, has recalled an X-ray contrast agent and had some poor results from a key drug trial.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index closed 0.4 percent weaker at 1,338.3. The index rallied about 4 percent last week to 1,344.1, its strongest finish since May 16 and its biggest weekly rise in percentage terms since March 2003.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,681.97 points, down 23.45 or 0.41 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 5,009.42 points, down 19.09 or 0.38 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 7,941.83 points, down 4.67 or 0.06 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 28,086 points, down 45 or 0.16 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares rose 0.56 percent, as companies geared to US growth, such as Westfield Group, rose on hopes of steady US interest rates but retailer Coles Myer fell as a strategy review failed to impress investors. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index added 27.7 points to close at 4,986.0.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks swung higher as firmer platinum prices and upbeat first-half earnings from Anglo Platinum lifted producers of the precious metal. The All-share index closed at 20,885.57 points, up 153.16 or 0.74 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,956.21 points, up 17.39 or 0.59 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 13,740.16 points, up 101.14 or 0.74 percent.