UK Stock Market Almanac

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

February 9: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day
Average percentage change for this day-0.131 %
Standard deviation0.736
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 19847
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 19846


Metals data for today
GoldSilverPlatinumPaladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change0.175%-0.148%0.312%-3.93%
Standard deviation % change1.5642.4661.91319.615
No. of times price has gone up10 13113
No. of times price has gone down1010 92
Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996


Yahoo European Business
Bank of England expected to hold interest rates (AFP)
European Shares Open Steady (Reuters)
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)
Commentary: The Downside Of Higher Productivity (BusinessWeek Online)
Nations Balk at New EU Tariffs on Bananas (AP)

On this day
2000 Sage share reach an all-time high of 930.5, having risen 77 times in the previous 5 years. (Two years later they were back below 100).

BBC - On This Day
1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade
United States Senator Joe McCarthy accuses more than 200 staff in the State Department of being Communists.
1979: Forest break football transfer record
Football club Nottingham Forest clinches Britain's first £1m transfer deal.
1983: Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers
A nationwide hunt for 1981 Derby winner and prize stallion Shergar begins in Ireland.
1995: Space pioneers take first small steps
The first Briton and the first African-American walk in space as part of a Nasa experiment.
1966: New nuclear reactor for Dounreay
A Protype Fast Reactor will be built at the Dounreay power station in a remote part of Scotland, the government announces.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for February 9

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