Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Telecom Italia was the day's biggest gainer after US phone giant AT&T and Mexican cell phone operator America Movil put in a bid for the company that controls the Italian operator worth 4.5 billion euros ($6.01 billion), according to Reuters calculations. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 ended up 0.35 percent at 1,521.03 points, having touched a high earlier high of 1,522.59 points