Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
But it also raised hopes of more bumper profits at energy majors such as BP and Royal Dutch. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index ended 0.05 percent weaker at 1,139.1 points, having trimmed earlier losses of around 0.5 percent after a Reuters report that the European Central Bank is weighing a rate cut, depending on the trend for economic data.