Week ended 22 August 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies

Posted by admin on 23 August, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | Be the First to Comment

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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