February 10: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.206 %
Standard deviation	0.779
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	8
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	5

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change	0.085%	0.079%	0.188%	0.229%
Standard deviation % change	0.639	1.366	1.156	1.121
No. of times price has gone up	13	12	10	4
No. of times price has gone down	8	12	11	2

Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996

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Yahoo European Business
FTSE 100 closes lower as oil prices bounce back (AFP)
London FTSE 100 breaks through 5,000 points barrier (AFP)
Hewlett Sends European Stocks Higher (Reuters)
Bank of England expected to hold interest rates (AFP)
Ex-divs to pull London lower (FT.com)
Bank of England expected to hold interest rates: analysts (AFP)
Shares close up on positive Wall St, rally in hotels, tobaccos (AFP)
Share Prices Rise 0.3 Percent in London (AP)
French Outline Latest Economic Program (AP)
European stocks steady in early trading (AFP)
U.S. Dollar Gains on Euro (AP)

On this day
1987 first trading day of the newly privatised British Airways
2004 Coca Cola launched in the UK a new bottled water called Dasani. When it was revealed that this was just tap water, the launch became a fiasco. Just five weeks later more news emerged of contamination, and Coke pulled the plug.

BBC - On This Day
1996: Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire
The IRA admit planting the bomb that exploded in the Docklands area of London last night.
1983: British police on trail of mass murderer
Police launch a mass murder investigation in London after discovering human remains in drains.
1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot
American spy plane pilot Captain Francis "Gary"Powers has been freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US.
1952: India passes first test of democracy
Independent India's first general elections pass off peacefully, and return Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to power.
1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
The American Navy has moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for February 10