Week ended 1 August 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies

Posted by admin on 6 August, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | Be the First to Comment

Oil markets have continued to push the price of oil up this week yet again by a small margin of 2.1% to rest at just under $70 a barrel for crude.

It has been another good week for the stock markets again with all world indices rising on the week. The best performers were Japanese and Spanish markets both rising by over 4%.

End of the week saw:

  This week Last week Change
Stock exchanges:      
FTSE 100: 4,608.36 GBX 4,576.61 GBX UP 0.7%
FTSE 250: 7,999.96 GBP 7,938.44 GBP UP 0.8%
UK All Share: 24,258.51 ZAX 23,943.98 ZAX UP 1.3%
US DOW: 9,171.61 USD 9,093.24 USD UP 0.9%
US S&P 500: 987.48 USD 979.26 USD UP 0.8%
US NASDAQ: 1,978.50 USD 1,965.96 USD UP 0.6%
Japan Nikkei: 10,356.83 JPY 9,944.55 JPY UP 4.1%
China H Seng: 20,573.33 HKD 19,982.79 HKD UP 3.0%
Australian ASX 200: 4,244.00 AUD 4,089.80 AUD UP 3.8%
German DAX: 5,332.14 EUR 5,229.36 EUR UP 2.0%
French CAC 40: 3,426.27 EUR 3,366.45 EUR UP 1.8%
Spanish Ibex 35: 10,855.10 EUR 10,438.60 EUR UP 4.0%
Currencies:      
UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $ 1.67154 1.64567 UP 1.6%
UK Sterling £ to Euro € 1.18230 1.15755 UP 2.1%
UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen 158.211 156.125 UP 1.3%
UK Sterling £ to Aus $ 2.01852 2.01111 UP 0.4%
US Dollar $ to Euro € 0.707313 0.703304 UP 0.6%
US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen 94.6500 94.8698 DOWN 0.2%
US Dollar $ to Aus $ 1.20758 1.22184 DOWN 1.2%
Commodities:      
Nymex Crude oil $69.47 $68.05 UP 2.1%
Gold $954.50 $953.10 UP 0.1%
 
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