Closing stock market indices

Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks rallied sharply as utilities shares gained after Germany's E.ON and Italy's Enel struck a deal over Spain's Endesa and oil prices fell.
E.ON shares ended the day almost 6 percent higher after the company admitted defeat in its 18-month long bid for Endesa and joined forces with Enel and Acciona to carve up Spain's biggest utility.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index closed up 1 percent at 1,536.56 points, having earlier hit highs around 1,536.88, a level not seen since February 27 when a fall on the Chinese stock market hit investor sentiment around the globe.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 7,045.56 points, up 108.39 or 1.56 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 5,711.91 points, up 66.35 or 1.18 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 9,053.95 points, up 97.64 or 1.09 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 33,035 points, up 330 or 1.01 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Australian shares rose 1.65 percent to pass the psychological 6,000 level for the first time in five weeks, as index heavyweights such as the top miners and banks staged a strong rebound. The S&P/ASX 200 index jumped 97.6 points to 6,013.4, after slipping 1.3 percent in the previous session.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: South African stocks continued to rally, boosted by renewed foreign investor interest in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the wake of a positive broker report on the local bourse. The All-share index closed at 27,568.17 points, up 149.29 or 0.54 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,965.18 points, up 51.96 or 1.78 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 19,042.36 points, up 111.57 or 0.59 percent.