Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday.
Equity markets were buoyed earlier in the session by forecast-beating results from blue chip companies such as Dutch insurer ING, Italian bank UniCredito and its take-over target, German banking group HVB. But while financial firms remained strong, gains on all major European indexes were surrendered after Wall Street slipped as a troubled General Motors hit a 23-year low and as oil prices slid to a 4-month low, knocking oil shares.
The FTSEurofirst index of pan-European shares closed 0.01 percent up at 1,225.4 points, about 1 percent below a 3-1/2 year peak of 1,242.24 points set in early October.
The All-share index closed at 16,999.57 points, up 180.68 or 1.07 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,198.96 points, up 117.9 or 5.67 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 12,326.94 points, down 16.02 or 0.13 percent.