UK Stock Market Almanac

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

January 19: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day
Average percentage change for this day-0.248 %
Standard deviation0.816
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 19849
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 19844


Metals data for today
GoldSilverPlatinumPaladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change0.328%0.404%0.523%-3.998%
Standard deviation % change0.7471.2321.07719.602
No. of times price has gone up13 11142
No. of times price has gone down711 73
Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996


Yahoo European Business
European Stocks Edge Up After U.S. Rally (Reuters)
Germany world's largest exporter for second year in row, figures show (Canadian Press)
Luxembourg Confident of Euro Pact (AP)
EU at odds over reform to euro rules (AFP)
Stocks drop amid profit-taking, rising oil prices (AFP)
EU ministers spurn call to ease fiscal rules (FT.com)
European Union signals new effort to change business and worker attitudes (Canadian Press)
EU Translation Costs to Surpass $1B Mark (AP)
Shares close higher as ITV, GUS rallies help offet weak Wall St. (AFP)
Dollar Cheered by Trichet Remarks on Asia (Reuters)
Bank of England freezes interest rates as economy stumbles (AFP)

On this day
1915 The neon tube sign was patented by George Claude.

BBC - On This Day
1966: Indira Gandhi takes charge in India
The only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, becomes the first woman prime minister of India.
1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet
A super tug is sent to protect British trawlers from Icelandic patrol boats as the dispute over cod fishing rights intensifies.
1990: Rebel cricketers face storm of protest
Police in Johannesburg armed with batons and dogs break up a demonstration against the rebel cricketers who are defying a ban on playing in segregated South Africa.
2001: 'Internet twins' taken into care
The American twin girls at the centre of an internet adoption scandal are seized from a hotel in north Wales and taken into care.
1988: Disabled author wins Whitbread
Writer Christopher Nolan, who cannot move or speak because of an accident at birth, wins the Whitbread Book of the Year prize.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for January 19

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