LONDON - Weakness in defensive pharmaceutical and tobacco stocks countered miners' gains to push Britain's top share index slightly lower by close, ending a seven-day winning streak. The FTSE 100 ended 3.05 points, or 0.06 percent lower, at 5,250.84, after it closed up 0.3 percent on Thursday. The index has gained 87.16 points this week.

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EUROPE - European shares rose for the eighth consecutive day, its longest winning streak in 11 months. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares closed up 0.3 percent at 1,044.52 points and was its highest close since May 13. The index rose around 2.5 percent for the week, its fourth consecutive week of gains.

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FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6,216.98 points, down 6.56 or 0.11 percent, up 169.15 since last Friday.

PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 3,687.21 points, up 4.13 or 0.11 percent, adding 131.69 points over the week.

ZURICH - The Swiss market index closed at 6,447.06 points, down 28.19 or 0.44 percent and higher on the week by 20.32 points.

MILAN - The FT IT All Share index closed at 21,295.51 points, up 173.35 or 0.82 percent, gaining 1,040.28 points since last Friday.

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TOKYO - The Nikkei average closed flat but chalked up a 289.77 point gain for the week, its biggest weekly rise in three months, with foreign investors starting to tiptoe back into the market. The benchmark Nikkei ended down 4.38 points at 9,995.02, after earlier inching up 0.3 percent to 10,029.11.

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HONG KONG - Shares held onto their one-month high, shrugging off a slide in the mainland, as investors turned slightly more confident the market was picking up and scooped up beaten down bank shares. The index rose 0.74 percent or 148.31 points to 20,286.71 helping the index post an extra 414.33 points, for its biggest weekly gain since April.

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SYDNEY - Shares advanced 24.56 points, gaining 46.4 points for the week, supported by gains in resource stocks as investors continued to hope for a compromise on a proposed new tax on mining profits.

The S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.54 percent to 4,551.9, but volume was light at around 80 percent of an average day.

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JOHANNESBURG - The rand firmed against the dollar, ending the week two percent stronger and supported by gold and the euro, while stocks fell as recent gains were seen to be been overdone. The All-share index closed at 27,761.7 points, down 37.33 or 0.13 percent, gaining 912.53 points over the week.