UK Stock Market Almanac

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

March 22: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day
Average percentage change for this day-0.576 %
Standard deviation1.28
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 19849
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 19845


Metals data for today
GoldSilverPlatinumPaladium
Day ranking (out of 365)1002979272
Avg. % change0.185%0.61%0.287%-0.161%
Standard deviation % change0.7491.2580.8521.008
No. of times price has gone up14 17131
No. of times price has gone down66 73
Gold:since 1970, Silver : 1970, Platinum: 1976, Paladium: 1996


Yahoo European Business
European Stocks Up Led by Allianz (Reuters)
Britain in bid to postpone EU lift on China arms ban (AFP)
EU leaders gather for economy boosting summit (AFP)
ECB fears undermining of public finance confidence (FT.com)
ECB Concerned on Deficit Spending Rules (AP)
Central Bank Slams EU's New Budget Pact (Reuters)
Budget Deal Will Help Start EU Summit (AP)
Dollar Gains More Than a Cent on the Euro (AP)
EU hails accord to reform fiscal rules (AFP)
European stocks begin week on steady footing (AFP)
EU resolves fiscal row, seeks to relaunch growth (AFP)

On this day
1903 Niagara Falls ran out of water because of a drought.

BBC - On This Day
1963: Profumo denies affair with model
The Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, denies any impropriety with Christine Keeler.
1979: British ambassador assassinated in Holland
British ambassador in Holland Sir Richard Sykes is shot dead outside his Dutch home.
1956: King convicted for bus boycott
Civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, has been convicted of organising an illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in the US state of Alabama.
1980: Schild family reunited with daughter
Teenager Annabel Schild is reunited with her mother after being released from seven months in captivity in Sardinia.
2002: Woman granted 'right to die'
A woman paralysed from the neck down wins the legal right to die by having her treatment withdrawn.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for March 22

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