Closing stock market indices

Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: Healthcare stocks hogged the limelight as European shares hit a near 22-month high after the take-over battle for Aventis was finally resolved and Roche spiked on a successful drug trial.
Solid results from a range of European companies also provided encouragement, as did a surprise lift in German business confidence.
However, key indexes closed off their peaks and below technical resistance levels in thin trade as a lacklustre start on Wall Street and worries about possible US interest rate rises weighed.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.3 percent higher at 1,026.1 points, having touched 1,030.9 points - its highest since July 2002.
Turnover was a modest 2.5 billion euros, and stocks rising barely outnumbered those that fell.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 4,125.83 points, up 22.21 or 0.54 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 3,785.55 points, down 25.88 or 0.68 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 5,881.2 points, up 63.1 or 1.08 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 21,336 points, up 43 or 0.20 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks ended weaker as shares in index heavyweight News Corp slipped and some major resource stocks also lost ground in quiet holiday-thinned trade.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index lost 6.5 points, or 0.19 percent, to end at 3,450.5.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Gold and platinum stocks tugged the stock market in opposite directions, leaving the main stock index flat.
The all-share index inched 16.55 or 0.16 percent higher to 10,655.55 points. The index has gained 2.5 percent this year, but is 5.6 percent off a peak of 11,295 points touched in early March.
The All Gold index closed at 1,938.9 points, up 16.44 or 0.86 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 7,588.66 points, up 18.67 or 0.25 percent.