Week ended 22 August 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies
Posted by admin on 23 August, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | 
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Another mixed bag this week with Asia Pacific stock markets falling and European and American all rising on the week.
Oil has gone back to it’s rise again this week jumping by 9.5% as news starts to filter through that economies areending their recessions, which will lead to increased demand on oil again.
End of the week saw:
| Last week | This week | Change | |
| Stock exchanges: | |||
| FTSE 100: | 4,713.97 GBX | 4,850.89 GBX | UP 2.9% |
| FTSE 250: | 8,515.83 GBP | 8,678.83 GBP | UP 1.9% |
| UK All Share: | 24,815.77 ZAX | 24,878.71 ZAX | UP 0.3% |
| US DOW: | 9,321.40 USD | 9,505.96 USD | UP 2.0% |
| US S&P 500: | 1,004.09 USD | 1,026.13 USD | UP 2.2% |
| US NASDAQ: | 1,985.52 USD | 2,020.90 USD | UP 1.8% |
| Japan Nikkei: | 10,597.33 JPY | 10,238.20 JPY | DOWN 3.4% |
| China H Seng: | 20,893.33 HKD | 20,199.02 HKD | DOWN 3.3% |
| Australian ASX 200: | 4,461.00 AUD | 4,290.60 AUD | DOWN 3.8% |
| German DAX: | 5,309.11 EUR | 5,462.74 EUR | UP 2.9% |
| French CAC 40: | 3,495.27 EUR | 3,615.81 EUR | UP 3.45% |
| Spanish Ibex 35: | 10,901.90 EUR | 11,161.00 EUR | UP 2.4% |
| Currencies: | |||
| UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $ | 1.65289 | 1.65208 | DOWN 0.1% |
| UK Sterling £ to Euro € | 1.16475 | 1.15372 | DOWN 1.0% |
| UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen | 157.124 | 155.889 | DOWN 0.8% |
| UK Sterling £ to Aus $ | 1.99026 | 1.97769 | DOWN 0.6% |
| US Dollar $ to Euro € | 0.704728 | 0.698041 | DOWN 1.0% |
| US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen | 95.0708 | 94.3468 | DOWN 0.8% |
| US Dollar $ to Aus $ | 1.20466 | 1.19829 | DOWN 0.5% |
| Commodities: | |||
| Nymex Crude oil | $67.51 | $73.89 | UP 9.5% |
| Gold | $948.70 | $954.70 | UP 0.6% |
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