May 6: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0.319 %
Standard deviation	0.887
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	3
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)	142	202	130	12
Avg. % change	0.11%	-0.025%	0.151%	0.517%
Standard deviation % change	0.525	1.962	0.878	2.057
No. of times price has gone up	8	13	9	3
No. of times price has gone down	6	6	6	0

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

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Yahoo European Business
FTSE 100 gains slightly after Labour win (FT.com)
European shares gain amid quiet trading on upbeat US data (AFP)
Creo Inc. loses $4.1 million US in Q2: currency fluctuation, restructuring (Canadian Press)
ECB holds rates, markets await Trichet (Reuters)
Germany's Schroeder meets Turkish leaders on EU bid, economic ties (AFP)
Short view (FT.com)
Euro-Zone Unemployment Up to 8.9 Percent (AP)
French economy minister hopes for deal stemming Chinese flood of textile exports (AFP)
Japanese PM urges EU to keep arms embargo on China (AFP)
Latvia, Malta, Cyprus Link to Euro (AP)
German Gov't Cuts 2005 Growth Forecast (AP)

On this day
2002 Hewlett Packard completed its acquisition of Compaq and officially changed its NYSE stock symbol to HPQ on this day in 2002. The $18.5 billion stock swap deal was the largest ever in the information technology industry.
1997 The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, gave the Bank of England independence from political control.

BBC - On This Day
1966: Moors murderers jailed for life
Ian Brady and his lover Myra Hindley are sentenced to life imprisonment for the so-called Moors murders.
1960: Margaret weds Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret marries the photographer, Anthony Armstrong Jones, at Westminster Abbey
1994: President and Queen open Chunnel
The Queen and France's President Francois Mitterrand formally open the Channel Tunnel during two elaborate ceremonies in France and Britain.
1997: Brown sets Bank of England free
The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, gives the Bank of England independence from political control.
1954: Bannister breaks four-minute mile
Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
2001: Second blast at London post office
A bomb explodes at a north London postal sorting office - the second such attack in three weeks - and has been linked to the Real IRA.
1988: Hick makes cricketing history
Graeme Hick, Worcestershire's 21-year-old prodigy, scores more than 400 runs in a county championship match - the highest innings in England this century.

Wikipedia On This Day
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