Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday.
Stocks largely ignored interest rate decisions from the Bank of England, which cut rates to help a sluggish economy, and the European Central Bank, which did not.
Royal Bank of Scotland was the biggest drag, falling 4.4 percent on concerns about its China expansion plans. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.7 percent weaker at 1,178.21 points.