April 25: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0 %
Standard deviation	0.587
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	7
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)	76	137	196	170
Avg. % change	0.23%	0.15%	0.004%	-0.011%
Standard deviation % change	1.221	2.089	1.568	0.863
No. of times price has gone up	12	14	11	3
No. of times price has gone down	8	10	9	2

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

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Yahoo European Business
France Constitution Rejection Worries EU (AP)
London shares close higher, rally in oils and Smiths jump offset NY dip (AFP)
British Economy Grows 0.6 Percent in 1Q (AP)
British economic growth slows ahead of general election (AFP)
Iran Sees 'Genuine'EU Effort to Reach Nuke Deal (Reuters)
European stocks rise as Pernod-Allied drinks deal lifts trade (AFP)
London shares close lower as financials slide and ex-div factors weigh (AFP)
German Economic Sentiment Drops Sharply (AP)
European Shares at 2-1/2 Month Lows (Reuters)
EU Ban Bites Into S. Africa Ostrich Trade (AP)
Pro-EU Premier Wins Turkish Cypriot Vote (AP)

On this day
2001 Motorola announced the closure of their plant in Bathgate in Scotland. The move cost over 3,00 jobs and the government was set to demand the return of £17m in grants that the company were given to persuade them to set up there.

BBC - On This Day
1980: Tehran hostage rescue mission fails
A top-secret attempt by the United States to free American hostages held in Iran collapses in failure, with the death of eight soldiers.
1982: Marines land in South Georgia
Britain re-establishes its presence in the Falkland Islands after a two-hour assault by Royal Marines on the remote island of South Georgia.
1983: 'Hitler diaries' published
The German magazine, Stern, publishes the first instalment of the controversial "Hitler Diaries", said to be written by the Führer himself.
2002: Brothers cleared of Damilola murder
Two teenage brothers are cleared of the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor.
1953: Scientists describe 'secret of life'
Two Cambridge University scientists make public their answer to one of the most fundamental questions of biology - how do living things reproduce themselves?

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