Week ended 9 May 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies

Posted by admin on 10 May, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | 2 Comments to Read

This week  has seen all major stock markets rise and in particluar the Chinese Hang Seng roase by 12%.

All European and American markets rose too with the highest rise shown by the French CAC 40 having risen on the week by 6.7% as confidence starts to feed back in to economies around the globe.

Also, with confidence coming back the oil price has risen in the week by 11.5% to $58.71 per barrel.
End of the week saw:

	This week	Last week	Change
Stock exchanges:
FTSE 100:	4,462.09 GBX	4,243.22 GBX	UP 5.2%
FTSE 250:	7,806.18 GBP	7,571.33 GBP	UP 3.1%
UK All Share:	21,840.51 ZAX	20,647.03 ZAX	UP 5.8%
US DOW:	8,574.65 USD	8,212.41 USD	UP 4.4%
US S&P 500:	929.23 USD	877.52 USD	UP 5.9%
US NASDAQ:	1,739.00 USD	1,719.20 USD	UP 1.2%
Japan Nikkei:	9432.83 JPY	8,977.37 JPY	UP 5.1%
China H Seng:	17,389..87 HKD	15,520.99 HKD	UP 12.0%
Australian ASX 200:	3,941.70 AUD	3,769.60 AUD	UP 4.6%
German DAX:	4,913.90 EUR	4,769.45 EUR	UP 3.0%
French CAC 40:	3,312.59 EUR	3159.85 EUR	UP 6.7%
Spanish Ibex 35:	9,408.10 EUR	9,038 EUR	UP 4.1%
Currencies:
UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $	1.50830	1.49089	UP 1.2%
UK Sterling £ to Euro €	1.12535	1.12313	UP 0.2%
UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen	148.527	147.906	UP 0.4%
UK Sterling £ to Aus $	1.98228	2.03507	DOWN 2.6%
US Dollar $ to Euro €	0.746102	0.753325	DOWN 1.0%
US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen	98.4737	99.2063	DOWN 1.0%
US Dollar $ to Aus $	1.31425	1.36500	DOWN 3.7%
Commodities:
Nymex Crude oil	$58.71	$52.65	UP 11.5%
Gold	$917.30	$887.90	UP 3.3 %