Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Friday.
Shares in the UK telecoms company and French heavy engineering firm Alstom fell about four percent and six percent respectively as brokers said the stocks looked fully valued after recent gains.
But heavily-weighted oil stocks including Shell and Total lent support as worries about supplies pushed oil prices within a whisker of 11-month highs.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index of pan-European blue chips ended 0.7 percent weaker at 1,010.54 points, slightly below a fresh 19-month high of 1,017.37 points set earlier in the session.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 7.0 points or 0.2 percent to 3,344.1, rising 10.4 from February 13.
The All-share index closed at 10983.91 points, down 35.28 or 0.32 percent on the day but up on the week by 158.55 points.
The All Gold index closed at 2318.5 points, down 23.46 or 1.00 percent, having lost 110.91 points since last weekend.
The Industrial index closed at 7231.12 points, up 6.93 or 0.10 percent, and better off since last Friday by 107.54 points.
The BSE-30 share Sensex shed 4.38 points or 0.07 percent to close at 5,850.72. The index was on a roller-coaster ride Friday trading between a high of 5,893.62 and low of 5,770.87.