Closing stock market indices

Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks rose for the sixth straight session, as rallying metal prices and hopes of big infrastructure spending boosted mining and steel shares such as ArcelorMittal. Utility group GDF Suez, which said Russian gas supplies to France plunged by 70 percent on Tuesday amid a deepening price dispute between Russia and Ukraine, dropped 5 percent. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares ended 1.9 percent higher at 889.57 points, its highest closing level since November 10.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 5,026.31 points, up 42.32 or 0.85 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,396.22 points, up 36.3 or 1.08 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,799.31 points, up 43.22 or 0.75 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 16,099 points, up 330 or 2.09 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares rose 1.51 percent to a near two-month closing high, as stocks such as banks with attractive dividend yields lured investors, but Leighton Holdings Ltd fell on profit downgrade. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index gained 55.7 points to 3,742.7, its highest close since November 14.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: South African blue chips raced to a 3 month high as stimulus plans buoyed global equities and stronger copper prices spurred BHP Billiton and Anglo American, while the rand weakened against the dollar. The All-share index closed at 22,919.76 points, up 615.33 or 2.76 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,201.31 points, up 41.77 or 1.93 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 17,602.5 points, up 267.13 or 1.54 percent.