UK Stock Market Almanac

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

February 2: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day
Average percentage change for this day0.484 %
Standard deviation0.795
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. % change0.152%0.271%0.204%-3.815%
Standard deviation % change1.6461.6850.99419.642
No. of times price has gone up11 14123
No. of times price has gone down1010 81
Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996


Yahoo European Business
German Unemployment Soars to New Record (AP)
German unemployment tops five million in January (AFP)
European Stocks Cautious Before Fed (Reuters)
European stocks higher on Wall Street gains (AFP)
Ingersoll-Rand 4th-Quarter Earnings Jump (Reuters)
European stocks drift lower in cautious trade (FT.com)
EU Urged to Shun Cuba Pending Reforms (AP)
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)

On this day
1998 S&P500 Index closes over 1000 for the first time.

BBC - On This Day
1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad
The half-starved remnants of the German 6th Army give themselves up after five months of bloody fighting for Stalingrad ends in defeat.
1990: De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa
The President of South Africa lifts the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid group the African National Congress.
1987: Peace envoy imprisoned in Beirut
Reports from Lebanon say Church of England envoy Terry Waite has been kidnapped by an Islamic militia group.
1979: Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose
Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in New York.
1972: British embassy in Dublin destroyed
Angry demonstrators burn the British Embassy in Dublin to the ground in protest at the shooting dead of 13 people in Londonderry on Sunday.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for February 2

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