Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
Shares in the Swiss banking giant fell 1.1 percent after the company said it faced legal action for possible breaches of securities laws due its relationship with scandal-plagued US healthcare company HealthSouth.
Alma Media was among the region's biggest gainers, up 24 percent after Norway's top media group Schibsted ASA made a surprise 705 million euro ($944 million) bid for the Finnish group.
Schibsted shares shed 2.3 percent. Electrolux shares also jumped 4.5 percent as dealers cited renewed talk that the world's biggest maker of household appliances could be a take-over target for private equity firms.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips ended 0.2 percent weaker at 1,035.4 points.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index closed up 20.1 points at 4,013.6.
The all share index sagged 7.78 or 0.06 percent to 12,450.63 points amid low turnover of around 2.4 billion rand.
The All Gold index closed at 1,617.02 points, down 34.61 or 2.10 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 9,567.76 points, up 7.53 or 0.08 percent.