Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Solid results from a range of European companies also provided encouragement, as did a surprise lift in German business confidence.
However, key indexes closed off their peaks and below technical resistance levels in thin trade as a lacklustre start on Wall Street and worries about possible US interest rate rises weighed.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.3 percent higher at 1,026.1 points, having touched 1,030.9 points - its highest since July 2002.
Turnover was a modest 2.5 billion euros, and stocks rising barely outnumbered those that fell.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 6.5 points, or 0.19 percent, to end at 3,450.5.
The all-share index inched 16.55 or 0.16 percent higher to 10,655.55 points. The index has gained 2.5 percent this year, but is 5.6 percent off a peak of 11,295 points touched in early March.
The All Gold index closed at 1,938.9 points, up 16.44 or 0.86 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 7,588.66 points, up 18.67 or 0.25 percent.