Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday.
The index has fallen 8 percent so far this year on the top of a 45 percent plunge in 2008. Nokia slumped 9 percent after a worse-than-expected dive in its fourth-quarter profit and its warning that market volumes would shrink 10 percent this year as the economic slowdown hit consumer spending. The world's top software maker Microsoft shocked investors with disappointing results and said it would slash up to 5,000 jobs and stop offering profit forecasts for the rest of the year.