Week ended 1 August 2009 – Markets, Commodities and currencies
Posted by admin on 6 August, 2009 under Weekly business news summary | 
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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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