Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday
ARM gained 8.6 percent after US chipmaker Intel unveiled a deal to buy German chipmaker Infineon's wireless unit. Infineon was down 0.9 percent. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares closed up 0.1 percent at 1,026.34 points, down around 1.7 percent for the month.