Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday.
News the world's largest confectionery group was unlikely to meet its 2005 margin goal due to rising costs hit rival food groups like Nestle and Unilever. But mining stocks bucked the weak market trend, with Anglo American and Rio Tinto up 3.7 percent and 2.5 percent respectively, as the dollar's weakness against the euro pushed gold prices higher.