Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
A new retreat of the dollar against the euro, oil prices holding above $45 a barrel and a mixed bag of news from retailers added to market woes, helping push the FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips 0.7 percent lower to 1,047.36 points.
The narrower DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 0.94 percent to 2,949.29 points.