February 7: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0.152 %
Standard deviation	1.089
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	0.437%	-0.015%	0.064%	-4.034%
Standard deviation % change	1.911	2.391	1.172	20.036
No. of times price has gone up	9	9	10	3
No. of times price has gone down	11	15	9	2

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

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Yahoo European Business
European stocks end week on high note (AFP)
European Stocks at New 2-1/2 Year Highs (Reuters)
U.S. Dollar Gains on Euro (AP)
Commentary: The Downside Of Higher Productivity (BusinessWeek Online)
Nations Balk at New EU Tariffs on Bananas (AP)
Henkel profits soar on one-off gains (AFP)
German Unemployment Passes 5 Million Mark (AP)
EU Sets Out on Course to Create More Jobs (AP)
EU outlines new business-friendly economic vision (AFP)
Shares rise with help from mining issues and strong Wall Street (AFP)
Poll: Europeans Down on Economy (AP)

On this day
2002 Figures published today by Halifax revealed that average house prices had broken the £100,000 barrier for the first time in history.

BBC - On This Day
1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany
Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.
1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US
Four members of the British hit band, the Beatles, arrive in New York at the start of their first tour of the United States.
1974: Heath tells voters to 'end industrial strife'
Prime Minister Edward Heath calls a snap election and appeals to the miners to suspend their planned strike
1992: Maastricht treaties make EU official
Ministers from the 12 countries in the European Community take another step towards political and economic union.
1974: Radical group 'arrested' heiress
A little-known group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army says its members are responsible for kidnapping 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
1987: S Korea clashes over student death
South Korean police make hundreds of arrests in the country's biggest demonstrations for six years.
1966: Hawaii hosts US-Vietnamese summit
Talks between US and South Vietnamese leaders begin in Hawaii to discuss the economic and political situation in Vietnam.
1971: Swiss women get the vote
Women in Switzerland are given the right to vote in national elections and to stand for parliament for the first time in the nation's history.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for February 7