March 7: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.173 %
Standard deviation	0.839
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	7
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	7

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)
Avg. % change	0.063%	-0.564%	-0.116%	0.098%
Standard deviation % change	1.117	2.356	1.553	0.517
No. of times price has gone up	12	10	10	3
No. of times price has gone down	9	13	9	1

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

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Yahoo European Business
European Stocks Firm, LSE Down (Reuters)
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)
German Business Failures Down in 2004 (AP)
Stocks climb amid cooler oil prices (AFP)
Quebec Premier Charest calls for stronger NAFTA modelled on EU (Canadian Press)
ECB Puts Brave Face on Slowdown, Rates Kept Steady (Reuters)
Trichet slams EU's extension of deadline for Greece to cut public deficit (AFP)
AstraZeneca sees share price surge after FDA backs Crestor drug (AFP)
EU member states fail to report fraud consistently: British watchdog (AFP)

On this day
1966 First landing of North Sea gas in the UK.

BBC - On This Day
1965: Police attack Alabama marchers
State troopers assault scores of demonstrators demanding better voting rights for blacks as they attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery.
1975: Kidnapped heiress found strangled
The body of Lesley Whittle, the 17-year-old heiress kidnapped from her Shropshire home 52 days ago, is found at the bottom of a drain shaft.
1988: IRA gang shot dead in Gibraltar
The IRA confirms the three people shot dead by security forces in Gibraltar yesterday were members of an active service unit.
1969: Israel elects first female leader
Golda Meir has been elected as the first female prime minister of Israel following Levi Eshkol's death.
1959: African activist flees to UK
An independence movement leader wanted in the British territory of Nyasaland in central Africa has fled to London and gone into hiding.
1965: Goldie the eagle evades capture again
A golden eagle which escaped from Regent's Park Zoo is still on the loose after outsmarting his keepers' latest attempts to recapture him.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for March 7