Week ended 20 June 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies
Posted by admin on 21 June, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | 
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All the world stock markets dropped this week with the Chinese Hanseng falling the most at 5.1% and in the UK the FTSE 250 dropped the most.
The price of oil dropped this week and which halted the last few weeks rises to close at $69.55 a barrell and gold dropped back further too to close at $936.20 per ounce.
End of the week saw:
| This week | Last week | Change | |
| Stock exchanges: | |||
| FTSE 100: | 4,345.93 GBX | 4,441.95 GBX | DOWN 2.2% |
| FTSE 250: | 7,334.34 GBP | 7,691.36 GBP | DOWN 4.6% |
| UK All Share: | 22,394.57 ZAX | 22,915.06 ZAX | DOWN 2.3% |
| US DOW: | 8,539.73 USD | 8,799.26 USD | DOWN 2.9% |
| US S&P 500: | 921.23 USD | 946.21 USD | DOWN 2.6% |
| US NASDAQ: | 1,827.47 USD | 1,858.80 USD | DOWN 1.7% |
| Japan Nikkei: | 9,786.26 JPY | 10,135.82 JPY | DOWN 3.4% |
| China H Seng: | 17,920.93 HKD | 18,889.68 HKD | DOWN 5.1% |
| Australian ASX 200: | 3,899.60 AUD | 4,062.20 AUD | DOWN 4.0% |
| German DAX: | 4,839.46 EUR | 5,069.24 EUR | DOWN 4.5% |
| French CAC 40: | 3,221.27 EUR | 3,326.14 EUR | DOWN 3.1% |
| Spanish Ibex 35: | 9,580.90 EUR | 9,714.40 EUR | DOWN 1.4% |
| Currencies: | |||
| UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $ | 1.65145 | 1.64487 | UP 0.2% |
| UK Sterling £ to Euro € | 1.18283 | 1.17373 | UP 0.8% |
| UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen | 158.752 | 161.742 | DOWN 1.8% |
| UK Sterling £ to Aus $ | 2.05065 | 2.02281 | UP 1.4% |
| US Dollar $ to Euro € | 0.716503 | 0.713500 | UP 0.4% |
| US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen | 98.1538 | 98.3399 | DOWN 0.2% |
| US Dollar $ to Aus $ | 1.24306 | 1.22979 | UP 1.1% |
| Commodities: | |||
| Nymex Crude oil | $69.55 | $72.04 | DOWN 3.5% |
| Gold | $936.20 | $940.70 | DOWN 0.5% |
Ellie said,
No wonder that the price of oil has fallen because of the world crisis and, therefore, no surprise!
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