Statwatch #11

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. I’ve decided to remove the signatures on the anti-Gordon Brown petition, as that particular statistic has petered out somewhat – it’s had its moment, and it isn’t really going anywhere anymore. I’ve also opted to add the £/$ and $/€ exchange rates, some stock market indices, as well as a couple of important commodities, courtesy of the BBC and corroborated by Bloomberg, and the overall index that tracks them.

In future I intend to attach some actual analysis to what are otherwise rather barren statistics, and thereby try and derive some tentative conclusions and perhaps predictions from them. In other words, bear with me…

The new commodity additions are: Silver Index $/oz, Aluminium Alloy Cash Unofficial Confirmed $/m tonne, Copper Cash Unofficial Confirmed $/m tonne, Lead Cash Unofficial Confirmed $/m tonne, Nickel Cash Unofficial Confirmed $/m tonne, Cocoa Futures £/m tonne (US ICE), Coffee “C” Futures US cents/pound (US ICE), Corn Futures €/m tonne (Euronext Liffe), Dow Jones UBS Commodity Index Cash Index

The index additions are: FTSE 100, Dax, Nikkei 225, Dow Jones and S&P 500.

£/€ XR: 0.8562 (↑0.0019 from last week)

£/$ XR: 1.6341

$/€ XR: 0.7153

FTSE 100: 4236.28

Dax: 4708.21

Nikkei 225: 9816.07

Dow Jones: 8280.74

S&P 500: 896.42

Brent crude oil: $65.43 (↓$3.67 from last week)

Gold: $932.50 (↓$9.50 from last week)

Silver: $13.44

Aluminium Alloy: $1410.00

Copper: $4975.00

Lead: $1675.50

Nickel: $16175.00

Cocoa: £2475.00

Coffee: 115.00¢

Corn: €137.00

Commodity Index: 121.02

~ by Marius Ostrowski on July 5, 2009.