UK Stock Market Almanac

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

January 26: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day
Average percentage change for this day0.589 %
Standard deviation0.821
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 19843
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 198410


Metals data for today
GoldSilverPlatinumPaladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change0.165%-0.122%0.056%-4.119%
Standard deviation % change1.1821.531.96919.604
No. of times price has gone up10 13132
No. of times price has gone down1010 73
Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996


Yahoo European Business
Vodafone Supports European Stocks (Reuters)
EU resumes aid to Sudan after end to long-running war (AFP)
Global Markets: European Shares Edge Up (Reuters)
European stocks slide in early trading (AFP)
EU's Gray Future (Investor's Business Daily)
Shares close in the black on upbeat US earnings (AFP)
Dollar falls on weak US consumer confidence (AFP)
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)
European Union signals new effort to change business and worker attitudes (Canadian Press)

BBC - On This Day
1950: India shakes off British rule
The independent republic of India is born as the new president replaces the Queen as head of state and a new constitution is adopted.
1952: Britons killed in Cairo riots
Reports from Egypt say at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured in anti-British riots in Cairo.
1998: Clinton denies affair with intern
President Clinton denies allegations he had an affair with 24-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky and rejects accusations he asked her to lie on oath.
1969: Prague riots over student martyr
Police wielding truncheons and firing tear gas from pressure canisters break up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague.
1982: UK unemployment tops three million
The number of people out of work in Britain rises above three million for the first time since the 1930s.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for January 26

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