Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index closed 0.2 percent higher at 1,356.20 points, having fallen by as much as 0.2 percent to the day's low at 1,351.49 and erasing an earlier rise to the day's high at 1,367.24, which marked a gain of 1 percent.