Gold has reversed it’s climb and closed down below the $1,000 mark this week – on the same week as oil dropped back significantly.
Oil dropped by 8.4% to close at just over $66 per barrel in the same we that has seen all world stock markets close down and Sterling took a bashing!
End of the week saw:
| This week | Last week | Change | |
| Stock exchanges: | |||
| FTSE 100: | 5,082.20 GBX | 5,172.89 GBX | DOWN 1.8% |
| FTSE 250: | 9,060.44 GBP | 9,306.93 GBP | DOWN 2.6% |
| UK All Share: | 24,944.83 ZAX | 25,792.05 ZAX | DOWN 3.3% |
| US DOW: | 9,665.19 USD | 9,820.20 USD | DOWN 1.6% |
| US S&P 500: | 1,044.38 USD | 1,068.30 USD | DOWN 2.2% |
| US NASDAQ: | 2,090.92 USD | 2,132.86 USD | DOWN 2.0% |
| Japan Nikkei: | 10,265.98 JPY | 10,370.54 JPY | DOWN 1.0% |
| China H Seng: | 21,024.40 HKD | 21,623.45 HKD | DOWN 2.8% |
| Australian ASX 200: | 4,713.30 AUD | 4,693.20 AUD | UP 0.4% |
| German DAX: | 5,581.41 EUR | 5,703.83 EUR | DOWN 2.1% |
| French CAC 40: | 3,739.14 EUR | 3,827.84 EUR | DOWN 2.3% |
| Spanish Ibex 35: | 11,643.80 EUR | 11,777.30 EUR | DOWN 1.1% |
| Currencies: | |||
| UK Sterling £ to US Dollar $ | 1.59507 | 1.62174 | DOWN 1.6% |
| UK Sterling £ to Euro € | 1.08541 | 1.10390 | DOWN 1.7% |
| UK Sterling £ to Japanese Yen | 142.903 | 148.347 | DOWN 3.7% |
| UK Sterling £ to Aus $ | 1.84052 | 1.87184 | DOWN 1.7% |
| US Dollar $ to Euro € | 0.680635 | 0.680689 | DOWN 0.0% |
| US Dollar $ to Japanese Yen | 89.5975 | 91.4828 | DOWN 2.1% |
| US Dollar $ to Aus $ | 1.15424 | 1.15415 | DOWN 0.0% |
| Commodities: | |||
| Nymex Crude oil | $66.02 | $72.04 | DOWN 8.4% |
| Gold | $991.60 | $1,010 | DOWN 1.8% |
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