Week ended 12 September 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies

Posted by admin on 13 September, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | Read the First Comment

Gold broke the $1,000 per ounce this week to close up 1% on the week at $1,006 per ounce.

Also, a very good week for all world stock markets which all moved in a positive direction and most notably the UK’s FTSE250 moving up by over 5% on the week.

On the currency market the US Dollar has strengthened against the major world currencies this week, whilst Sterling has dropped back.

End of the week saw:

	This week	Last week	Change
Stock exchanges:
FTSE 100:	5,011.47 GBX	4,851.70 GBX	UP 3.3%
FTSE 250:	9,207.89 GBP	8,745.85 GBP	UP 5.3%
UK All Share:	25,567.39 ZAX	24,719.17 ZAX	UP 3.4%
US DOW:	9,605.41 USD	9,441.27 USD	UP 1.7%
US S&P 500:	1,042.73 USD	1,016.40 USD	UP 2.6%
US NASDAQ:	2,080.90 USD	2,018.78 USD	UP 3.1%
Japan Nikkei:	10,444.33 JPY	10,187.11 JPY	UP 2.5%
China H Seng:	21,161.42 HKD	20,318.62 HKD	UP 4.1%
Australian ASX 200:	4,496.10 AUD	4,435.50 AUD	UP 1.4%
German DAX:	5,624.02 EUR	5,384.43 EUR	UP 4.4%
French CAC 40:	3,734.89 EUR	3,598.76 EUR	UP 3.8%
Spanish Ibex 35:	11,452.60 EUR	11,222.70 EUR	UP 2.0%
Currencies:
UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $	1.62630	1.66809	DOWN 2.5%
UK Sterling £ to Euro €	1.13707	1.14278	DOWN 0.5%
UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen	152.270	151.067	UP 0.8%
UK Sterling £ to Aus $	1.93159	1.93107	UP 0.03%
US Dollar $ to Euro €	0.699178	0.685149	UP 2.0%
US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen	93.6300	90.5534	UP 3.4%
US Dollar $ to Aus $	1.18772	1.15762	UP 2.6%
Commodities:
Nymex Crude oil	$69.29	$67.70	UP 2.3%
Gold	$1,006	$995.80	UP 1.0%