Closing stock market indices

Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
EUROPE STOCKS EXCHANGE: European stocks notched up a third successive session of gains, helped by commodity shares that rose on higher crude prices and a mining sector take-over, and as investors bet on a US rate cut this week. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares ended the day up 0.72 percent at 1,588.31 points, taking its gains for the year to around 7 percent.
FRANKFURT STOCKS EXCHANGE: The DAX index ended at 8,009.67 points, up 60.5 or 0.76 percent.
PARIS STOCKS EXCHANGE: The CAC-40 index closed at 5,836.19 points, up 41.32 or 0.71 percent.
ZURICH STOCKS EXCHANGE: The Swiss market index closed at 9,007.27 points, up 44.35 or 0.49 percent.
MILAN STOCKS EXCHANGE: The All Share Mibtel index closed at 31,299 points, up 114 or 0.37 percent.
SYDNEY STOCKS EXCHANGE: Stocks rose 1.37 percent to a record closing peak as investors chased nickel miners after Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata Plc's launched a A$3.1 billion ($2.8 billion) bid for Jubilee Mines NL. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index climbed 91.5 points to 6,792.1, erasing the previous record reached on October 11.
JOHANNESBURG STOCKS EXCHANGE: Shares gained in line with global markets as investors bet the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this week, but the rand gave up early gains on profit-taking. The All-share index closed at 31,211.44 points, up 406.58 or 1.32 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,493.16 points, up 34.32 or 1.40 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 21,375.45 points, up 157.36 or 0.74 percent.
MANILA STOCKS EXCHANGE: Philippine financial markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday. Trading will resume Tuesday.