Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Wednesday.
Nordic bank Nordea cheered investors by reporting net interest income and costs that beat analysts' expectations, sending its shares 5.2 percent higher.
The FTSE Eurotop-300 index inched 0.04 percent higher to end unofficially at 951.8 points, just 1.8 percent above Monday's 2004 intraday low of 934.72 and some 7.7 percent below a multi-month high of 1,030.86 points set at the end of April.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index ended down 7.1 points, or 0.2 percent, at 3,476.1.
The All-share index closed at 10,687.33 points, down 58.2 or 0.54 percent.
The All Gold index closed at 1,879.11 points, down 5.51 or 0.29 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 7,368.11 points, down 35.32 or 0.48 percent.