Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
A parallel advance on Wall Street and outside hopes for an interest cut in Europe later in the week also helped sentiment as investors indicated that last week's slide to 2004 lows had been overdone.
Among the standouts, BP rose two percent after the world's second-largest oil firm pledged to hand back "significant" extra cash to shareholders over the next three years on the back of high oil prices.
German carmaker Volkswagen gained 2.7 percent after data showed its sales of passenger cars in China jumped 40 percent last year.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index ended up 1.2 percent at 985.05.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index ended 17.5 points, or 0.51 percent, lower at 3,411.
The All-share index closed at 10617.35 points, down 35.85 or 0.34 percent.
The All Gold index closed at 2226.69 points, down 58.41 or 2.56 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 7171.67 points, down 1.59 or 0.02 percent.