Global market

How the world's major stocks markets have done this month

U.S. markets, as of Monday's close:

The Dow Jones industrial average: down 10.3 percent in August, and down 11 percent in 2015.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index: down 10 percent this month, and down 8.1 percent this year.

The Nasdaq composite: down 11.7 percent this month, and down 4.4 percent this year.

Europe:

Global markets rise, led by Chinese surge on stimulus hope

KEEPING SCORE: France's CAC 40 was up 0.3 percent to 5,171.76 and Germany's DAX rose by the same rate to 11,521.70. Britain's FTSE 100, however, shed 0.8 percent to 6,668.13 as a drop in commodity prices weighed on its many mining stocks. U.S. shares were set to recover from recent losses, with both the S&P 500 and Dow futures up 0.2 percent.