Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Germany's broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media rose 9.4 percent on reports that publisher Axel Springer may try to buy a controlling stake in it. Telecom Italia gained 2 percent on what analysts said could be buying of the stock by funds flush with cash after taking up the group's buyout offer for stock in its wireless arm TIM.
The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips was up 0.7 percent at 1,061.8 points, its highest level since mid-2002, and showing gains of about 2 percent for January.
The All Gold index closed at 1,545.45 points, up 27.44 or 1.81 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 9,692.03 points, up 100.4 or 1.05 percent.