Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
But analysts at Lehman Brothers and J.P. Morgan warned that the party may be over soon as interest rates looked set to rise further and credit analysts at WestLB foresaw a widening of corporate bond spreads especially for telecoms and utilities.
US factory orders fell 4.5 percent in January, fresh data showed, and Wall Street's leading stock indexes were mixed as the European trading day ended.