The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index rose 0.5% to 5337.00, France's CAC-40 index ended up 0.5% at 3026.76 and Germany's DAX added 1% to 5799.91.
The manufacturing sector grew at its fastest pace since June 2011 in February, according to the Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers' index, while U.S. consumer confidence was at its highest level since November, according to Thomson-Reuters and University of Michigan's consumer-sentiment index.
Germany's DAX index rose 0.9% to 7144.45, while France's CAC-40 index finished 0.4% higher at 3580.21.
In America, the collapse is striking both for its severity and its breadth: home prices fell in every city covered by Case-Shiller's 20-city composite index in September.
He made his name as a basher of burdensome bureaucracy, an issue on which Mr Tusk's government has made only slow progress: Poland is a mid-table laggard in the World Bank's index of business-friendliness.
On the economic front, the Conference Board's consumer-confidence index for January fell more than expected.
On the United Nations Development Programme's human-development index, Nepal comes 140th out of 177 countries.
The Euro is sliding against the dollar and European stock bourses and U.S. stock-index futures fell overnight.
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On a quarterly basis, prices are falling in half of the 20 countries in The Economist's house-price index.
France's Cac-40 index was a rare exception - still losing on the year, but just half a percent.
On the UN Development Programme's human-development index, a general measure of wellbeing, Turkey comes below Russia, Albania and Romania.
It was the strongest performer on the Standard Poor's 500-stock index on Tuesday, and has gained 95% this year.
The Standard Poor's 500-stock index gained 7.32 points, or 0.6%, to 1285.50 Tuesday.
She said India features on the committee's Impunity Index -- a list of countries where journalist murders are consistently unprosecuted.
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On a quarterly basis prices are now falling in at least half the 20 countries in The Economist's house-price index.
The Institute for Supply Management's Non-Manufacturing Index showed the services index grew faster than expected in September, the ninth-straight monthly gain.
Last year was the only one of the past ten in which funds of funds did not trail the company's hedge-fund index.
The Empire State's business-conditions index increased for the fourth consecutive month to 20.21 from 19.53 in February, the highest in well over a year.
Among the obesity services that will be covered are screenings to determine a person's body-mass index, as well as other detection and counseling services.
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Of the seven currencies that make up the Federal Reserve's major-currency index, only one (the Australian dollar) is within 10% of its fair value.
Inflation remained subdued: the euro area's consumer-price index rose by 2.1% in the year to November, down from 2.4% in the year to October.
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index ended down 1% at 5871.51, Germany's DAX fell 0.5% to 6856.08 and France's CAC-40 index ended nearly flat at 3452.45.
The University of Michigan's consumer-confidence index was stronger at the end of July than preliminary estimates had indicated, but still much weaker than in June.
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Even contrarians who predicted that a 5, 000 Dow would kill the rally have put away their gloomy predictions and cheered as New York's blue-chip index soars toward 8, 000.
Though it is still near the bottom of the UN's human-development index, it is ranked quite high for governance and freedom, coming 18th out of Africa's 53 countries.
China's consumer-price index, a measure of inflation, rose at a slower clip in March than in February, which investors interpreted to mean monetary policy was likely to remain relatively accommodative.
Meanwhile, the Conference Board's consumer-confidence index for May jumped to a five-year high of 76.2, much better than expectations for a reading of 72 and an upwardly revised April reading of 69.
The euro zone's purchasing-managers index, a gauge of manufacturing activity, fell in November to a level consistent with a 1% quarterly drop in gross domestic product, according to research firm Capital Economics.
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