March 10: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0.264 %
Standard deviation	0.67
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	3
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	11

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)	85	103	179	83
Avg. % change	0.212%	0.261%	0.055%	0.135%
Standard deviation % change	1.257	1.863	1.999	0.442
No. of times price has gone up	14	14	12	4
No. of times price has gone down	6	9	8	1

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

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Yahoo European Business
European Shares Open Lower (Reuters)
Officials Discuss EU's Economic Plan (AP)
Stocks push higher in afternoon trade (AFP)
EU warning as talks on budget rules fail (AFP)
With two weeks to deadline, EU countries deadlocked on euro rules reform (Canadian Press)
Brown warns against leaving EU fiscal rules unchanged (AFP)
WTO: S. Korea Must Nix Some ShipbuilderAid (AP)
Shares close off lows as Wall St helps offset weak GSK (AFP)
Gulf seminar hears EU call for effective laws to fight terror funding (AFP)
London shares close higher as US rate fears recede (AFP)
U.S. Data Lift Euro Stocks, Bond Prices (Reuters)

On this day
1999 HSBC Holdings announced a deal with Safra Republic Holdings to buy Republic New York Corporation for $10.3bn.
2000 Nasdaq reached its all-time closing high of 5.048.62.

BBC - On This Day
1969: Martin Luther King's killer gets life
James Earl Ray is jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting the murder of the American civil rights leader.
1988: Avalanche hits royal ski party
The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death on the ski slopes of Switzerland in an avalanche which kills one of his closest friends.
1990: Observer 'spy' sentenced to die
A court in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, imposes the death sentence on The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft.
1973: British officials shot dead in Bermuda
The British governor and his assistant have been assassinated in Bermuda, a British-dependent territory in the North Atlantic.
1956: Riots erupt in Cyprus over Archbishop
Greek Cypriots demonstrate and strike after Britain arrests and deports Archbishop Makarios.

Wikipedia On This Day
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