Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Monday.
Finnish telecoms equipment giant Nokia topped technology climbers after winning a framework deal with Russian telecom operator Megafon worth more than $350 million to expand its GSM and GPRS networks.
Nokia shares gained 3.3 percent. Other bright spots included Dutch insurer Aegon, which estimated its 2003 insurance operations climbed eight percent on 2002, and miners BHP Billiton and Antofagasta amid hopes key client China would manage to rein in its red-hot economy without tightening borrowing costs.
The FTSE Eurotop 300 index of pan-European blue chips added 0.78 percent to end at 1,000.65 points, closing above 1,000 mark for the first time since May 5, after last week's decision by oil cartel Opec to raise production cooled crude prices and removed a major thorn in the market's sides.
Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index touched a high of 3,486.7 - a level last seen in March 2002 - before finishing at 3,484.0, up 16.3 points, or 0.47 percent.
The FTSE/JSE All-Share Index ended 1.71 percent or 174.78 points up at 10,366.11 points.
The All Gold index closed at 1,822.86 points, up 38.66 or 2.17 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 7,505.15 points, up 115.63 or 1.56 percent.