Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Telecoms also stood out, with Virgin Mobile up 10 percent as UK cable TV company NTL offered to pay 817 million pounds ($1.42 billion) for it to create a TV, Internet, phone and mobile phone service provider under the Virgin brand.
BT and France Telecom, the owner of the Orange cell phone business, fell on concern about increased competition, but Vodafone reversed earlier losses to add 1.6 percent on news of the appointment of HSBC's outgoing chairman as its new chairman.
The All Gold index closed at 2,230.55 points, down 51.55 or 2.26 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 12,142.7 points, up 4.12 or 0.03 percent.