UK Stock Market Almanac

Monday, January 31, 2005

January 31: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day
Average percentage change for this day0.37 %
Standard deviation0.804
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 19844
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 198410


Metals data for today
GoldSilverPlatinumPaladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change-0.049%0.408%0.345%-4.359%
Standard deviation % change1.8821.5891.43319.955
No. of times price has gone up9 1590
No. of times price has gone down119 103
Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996


Yahoo European Business
European Stocks Eye Fresh 30-Mth Peak (Reuters)
EU Urged to Shun Cuba Pending Reforms (AP)
German unemployment at 'moment of truth', minister says (AFP)
China, EU Tell Different Economic Tales (AP)
EU Tells Ukraine to Walk Before It Runs (Reuters)
EU countries reluctant to agree to UN appeal to take in more refugees (Canadian Press)
How to Vanquish Euro-Sclerosis (BusinessWeek Online)
EU Seeks to Improve Trade Among Nations (AP)
EU chief seeks renewal for flagging bloc (AFP)
British Economy Grows 3.1 Percent in 2004 (AP)
London shares close higher on upbeat US earnings (AFP)

On this day
2003 Charles Schwab, the US stock and discount brokerage, announced it would sell its UK operations to Barclays bank.

BBC - On This Day
2000: Life for serial killer Shipman
Family GP Dr Harold Shipman is jailed for life for murdering 15 of his patients, making him Britain's most prolific convicted serial killer.
1953: 130 die in ferry disaster
A car ferry sinks in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales of the winter, claiming the lives of up to 130 passengers and crew.
1996: Fifty dead in Sri Lanka suicide bombing
A lorry carrying heavy explosives has crashed into the central bank killing more than 50 people.
1968: Americans alarmed by 'Tet Offensive'
The American command in Vietnam reports over 5,000 people dead after two days' intensive fighting.
1983: British drivers ordered to belt up
Drivers and front-seat passengers must wear seatbelts under a new law designed to reduce road deaths.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for January 31

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