Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
High dividend yields for telecommunications shares, after they were last year's weakest sector in Europe, helped produce a 1.2 percent gain by the DJ EuroStoxx sector index, with France Telecom up 2.9 percent and Vodafone rising 1.4 percent. "Telecoms have stabilised and could be a sector that has recovery potential," said Frank Schallenberger, an equity strategist at German Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg.