Closing stock market indices

Major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday.
Danone rose as much as 4.2 percent as the French food group said it is in exclusive talks to sell its biscuit and cereal unit to Kraft Foods for 5.3 billion euros and analysts expected this to boost Danone's other acquisitions.
The All-share index closed at 28,755.03 points, up 51.9 or 0.18 percent. The All Gold index closed at 2,470.99 points, down 13.28 or 0.53 percent, while the Industrial index closed at 19,526.4 points, down 31.43 or 0.16 percent.