Closing stock market indices

01 Aug, 2006

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Bayer lost 1.4 percent, hit by news that its new acquisition, German drugs firm Schering, has recalled an X-ray contrast agent and had some poor results from a key drug trial.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index closed 0.4 percent weaker at 1,338.3. The index rallied about 4 percent last week to 1,344.1, its strongest finish since May 16 and its biggest weekly rise in percentage terms since March 2003.

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