February 14: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0.048 %
Standard deviation	0.81
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	6
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	8

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change	0.23%	-0.142%	0.102%	0.18%
Standard deviation % change	2.211	1.161	1.164	1.052
No. of times price has gone up	12	11	11	4
No. of times price has gone down	9	13	9	1

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

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Yahoo European Business
London starts week flat despite bid rumours (FT.com)
'Big Brother'producer Endemol looks to float on British bourse: report (AFP)
Share Prices Up 0.9 Percent in London (AP)
French Economy Posts Upbeat Growths (AP)
European Stocks Track NY Gain (Reuters)
Shares close higher as FTSE 100 hits 5,000 mark (AFP)
Bank of England leaves interest rates at 4.75 percent (AFP)
FTSE 100 closes lower as oil prices bounce back (AFP)
London FTSE 100 breaks through 5,000 points barrier (AFP)
Bank of England expected to hold interest rates (AFP)
European stocks steady in early trading (AFP)

On this day
1983 first trading day of the newly privatised Assd Brit Ports

BBC - On This Day
1945: Thousands of bombs shower Dresden
British and US bombers pound the ancient German city of Dresden with high explosives and incendiaries.
1993: Missing two-year-old found dead
Police confirm a body found on a railway embankment in Merseyside is that of missing toddler James Bulger.
1984: British ice couple score Olympic gold
British figure skating couple Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate off with a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo after dancing to Ravel's Bolero.
1989: Ayatollah sentences author to death
Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini issues a death threat against British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers over the book Satanic Verses.
1997: Lawrence 'killed by racists'
Jurors at the inquest into the death of Stephen Lawrence have decided the black teenager was unlawfully killed "in a completely unprovoked racist attack by five white youths".
1974: Russian author charged with treason
Soviet authorities formally charge Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn with treason a day after forcing him to leave the USSR.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for February 14