Week ended 25 July 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies
Posted by admin on 26 July, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | 
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Oil markets have continued to push the price of oil up this week by a further 7.3% to close at just over $68 a barrel for crude – last week this rose by 6.2%.
It has been a good week for the stock markets with all world indices rising on the week, with the best performer being the China Hang Seng index, which rose by 6.3% on the week.
End of the week saw:
| Last week | This week | Change | |
| Stock exchanges: | |||
| FTSE 100: | 4,388.75 GBX | 4,576.61 GBX | UP 4.3% |
| FTSE 250: | 7,580.66 GBP | 7,938.44 GBP | UP 4.7% |
| UK All Share: | 23,543.11 ZAX | 23,943.98 ZAX | UP 1.7% |
| US DOW: | 8,743.94USD | 9,093.24 USD | UP 4.0% |
| US S&P 500: | 940.38 USD | 979.26 USD | UP 4.1% |
| US NASDAQ: | 1,886.61 USD | 1,965.96 USD | UP 4.2% |
| Japan Nikkei: | 9,395.32 JPY | 9,944.55 JPY | UP 5.8% |
| China H Seng: | 18,805.66 HKD | 19,982.79 HKD | UP 6.3% |
| Australian ASX 200: | 4,000.80 AUD | 4,089.80 AUD | UP 2.2% |
| German DAX: | 4,978.40 EUR | 5,229.36 EUR | UP 5.0% |
| French CAC 40: | 3,218.46 EUR | 3,366.45 EUR | UP 4.6% |
| Spanish Ibex 35: | 10,041.90 EUR | 10,438.60 EUR | UP 4.0% |
| Currencies: | |||
| UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $ | 1.63434 | 1.64567 | UP 0.7% |
| UK Sterling £ to Euro € | 1.15916 | 1.15755 | DOWN 0.1% |
| UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen | 154.209 | 156.125 | UP 1.2% |
| UK Sterling £ to Aus $ | 2.03835 | 2.01111 | DOWN 1.3% |
| US Dollar $ to Euro € | 0.709186 | 0.703304 | DOWN 0.8% |
| US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen | 94.3550 | 94.8698 | UP 0.5% |
| US Dollar $ to Aus $ | 1.24634 | 1.22184 | DOWN 2.0% |
| Commodities: | |||
| Nymex Crude oil | $63.41 | $68.05 | UP 7.3% |
| Gold | $937.70 | $953.10 | UP 1.6% |
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Red Fox said,
Appalled by previous comment! We’ve got enough investors in Europe! Try to invest in one of your companies back in China, make some good products for a change!
carlcaroll said,
The question is if the improvements in the markets are due to Obama’s big policies (such as TARP, health care,etc.) or because markets are reacting to the feeling that many of his policies will not be approved by congress
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