Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday
The index is up about 4 percent this month and 2.3 percent higher in 2010. Sentiment also worsened after figures showed single-family US home prices dipped in July as high unemployment and millions of foreclosed homes and distressed borrowers kept stalling a home price recovery. Concerns about the pace of global economic recovery, the condition of eurozone banks and sovereign debt levels also prompted investors to stay cautious.