June 11: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.077 %
Standard deviation	0.97
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	8
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)	261	170	295	172
Avg. % change	-0.106%	0.06%	-0.218%	-0.012%
Standard deviation % change	0.725	1.056	0.737	0.951
No. of times price has gone up	10	10	7	2
No. of times price has gone down	8	13	13	4

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

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Yahoo European Business
European stocks rally as investors digest Greenspan testimony (AFP)
EU's Almunia Plays Down Concern About EMU (AP)
Recession gloom hangs over Italian economy (AFP)
Blair hangs tough on rebate as he pushes for EU reforms (AFP)
EU seeks time to restructure textiles amid globalisation fears (AFP)
Blair insists EU rebate must be put amid broader debate of EU finances (AFP)
European chipmakers lifted by Intel (FT.com)
London shares end firmer near highs (AFP)
Britain reiterates insistence on keeping EU rebate (AFP)
Bank of England keeps rate at 4.75 percent, shuns calls for cut (AFP)
Bono presses Europe not to 'blow it'over aid (AFP)

On this day
1939 King & Queen of England tasted their first ""hot dogs"" at a party for FDR.

BBC - On This Day
1955: Le Mans disaster claims 77 lives
Seventy-seven people are killed and 77 others injured when a racing car spins off the track and into the crowd.
1998: UN warns of famine in Sudan
More than a million people in Sudan are facing starvation, prompting the United Nations to declare an official famine in the region.
1959: Hovercraft marks new era in transport
The Hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell is officially launched in Southampton.
1987: Thatcher wins record third term
Margaret Thatcher declares she is "raring to go"as she wins a record third term as prime minister.
1976: Mercenaries trial begins in Angola
The trial of 13 mercenaries - 10 of them British - begins in Angola with the public still in the dark over the exact charges.
1968: French student rebel arrives in UK
French student rebel leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit arrives in Britain stirring up fears of campus unrest.

Wikipedia On This Day
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