Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
Mining stocks such as Anglo American and Antofagasta tumbled 3.7 percent and 5.4 percent respectively on concern about global slowing demand for metals, while heavily-weighted energy stocks also staggered as oil dipped more than 2 percent.
Financials added to the market's woes, with Alliance & Leicester down 5.6 percent on disappointment that French suitor Credit Agricole bought a bank elsewhere.
The rest of the sector fell sharply amid worries that a 12 percent slide in European stock markets in the past month will have dented financial institutions' equity portfolio. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares shed 2.1 percent to 1,238.74 points, its lowest closing level since November 30, 2005.
The All Gold index closed at 2,360.1 points, down 193.93 or 7.59 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 12,502.2 points, down 457.96 or 3.53 percent.