Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Dutch bank ABN Amro and Norwegian oil firm Statoil also rose strongly on robust earnings, further boosting indexes as they forced sector peers higher. Europe's FTSEurofirst 300 index closed 2.2 percent or 25.8 points higher at 1,199.8 points. The points rise was the biggest one-day gain since April 7, 2003, when bourses were buoyed by hopes the Iraq War would end quickly.