Week ended 6 June 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies
Posted by admin on 7 June, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | 
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Gold has halted its rising run and dropped a little this week closing at $956.70 per ounce – so maybe it will not reach the $1,000 level.
On the commodities front, a good week for all global stock markets with the US NASDAQ and the Australian ASX rising by over 4% each this week and oil has continued to rise again closing up by a further 3% this week.
End of the week saw:
| This week | Last week | Change | |
| Stock exchanges: | |||
| FTSE 100: | 4,438.56 GBX | 4,417.94 GBX | UP 0.5% |
| FTSE 250: | 7,747.33 GBP | 7,572.00 GBP | UP 2.3% |
| UK All Share: | 23,166.38 ZAX | 22,770.62 ZAX | UP 1.7% |
| US DOW: | 8,763.13 USD | 8,500.33 USD | UP 3.0% |
| US S&P 500: | 940.09 USD | 919.14 USD | UP 2.3% |
| US NASDAQ: | 1,849.42 USD | 1,774.33 USD | UP 4.2% |
| Japan Nikkei: | 9,768.01 JPY | 9,522.50 JPY | UP 2.6% |
| China H Seng: | 18,679.53 HKD | 18,171.00 HKD | UP 2.8% |
| Australian ASX 200: | 3,971.20 AUD | 3,818.00 AUD | UP 4.0% |
| German DAX: | 5,077.03 EUR | 4,940.82 EUR | UP 2.8% |
| French CAC 40: | 3,339.05 EUR | 3,277.65 EUR | UP 1.9% |
| Spanish Ibex 35: | 9,519.00 EUR | 9,424.30 EUR | UP 1.0% |
| Currencies: | |||
| UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $ | 1.59783 | 1.62246 | DOWN 1.5% |
| UK Sterling £ to Euro € | 1.14380 | 1.14510 | DOWN 0.1% |
| UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen | 157.642 | 154.153 | UP 2.3% |
| UK Sterling £ to Aus $ | 2.01438 | 2.01274 | UP 0.08% |
| US Dollar $ to Euro € | 0.715850 | 0.705888 | UP 1.4% |
| US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen | 98.6600 | 95.0774 | UP 3.8% |
| US Dollar $ to Aus $ | 1.26070 | 1.24206 | UP 1.5% |
| Commodities: | |||
| Nymex Crude oil | $68.35 | $66.31 | UP 3.0% |
| Gold | $956.70 | $978.80 | DOWN 2.3 % |
jesse said,
good updates about markets
jesse’s last blog post..ROSES BASED ON SIZE AND BLOOMING
Beauty Salon Bromsgrove said,
I use a ‘Dogs of the FTSE’ method for one of my portfolios and this week has been slow as you can tell from the .5%.
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