Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Thursday. LONDON - Britain's top shares fell to halt a three-day winning run and pull back from near four-year highs, with insurers hit after Aviva raised worries about UK margins while surging oil prices stoked fears that high fuel costs would crimp company profits. The FTSE 100 closed at 5358.6 points, down 18.9 or 0.35 percent. EUROPE - Record high oil prices above $65 a barrel and weakness in insurance stocks after patchy results from companies like ING and Aviva dragged European stocks from three-year highs. Deutsche Telekom also weighed, falling 2.3 percent after a poor UK performance and a tough domestic fixed line market cast a pall over solid second-quarter results. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of pan-European blue chips closed 0.3 percent lower at 1,196.2 points, retreating from Wednesday's peak of 1,199.9 points -- its highest since May 2002. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 4953.93 points, down 36.64 or 0.73 percent. --more 2006 Local Time 1706 GMT
