June 19: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.199 %
Standard deviation	0.84
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	9
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)	133	296	126	59
Avg. % change	0.129%	-0.28%	0.16%	0.208%
Standard deviation % change	0.701	0.995	0.905	0.851
No. of times price has gone up	14	8	13	5
No. of times price has gone down	7	14	7	1

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

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Yahoo European Business
Economic row hangs over EU leaders (AFP)
Consumer in focus for London stock market next week (AFP)
New British blow to hopes of EU budget deal (AFP)
Shares close higher on upbeat US confidence data (AFP)
European exchanges up, London and Paris hit three-year highs (AFP)
Digging For Gold In The Balkans (BusinessWeek Online)
EU Talks on Its Future Budget Collapse (AP)
German Gov't: Economy Likely Slowed in 2Q (AP)
Farm union warns against CAP reform (AFP)
Dollar extends losses on record deficit (Reuters)
Dollar resumes rally against euro; yen firms (AFP)

On this day
1982 Roberto Calvi, a senior Italian banker, is found dead under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

BBC - On This Day
1975: Missing earl guilty of murder
An inquest jury decides Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.
1980: Gunbattle at British embassy in Iraq
Three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad are shot dead by Iraqi security forces.
1970: Shock election win for Heath
Edward Heath becomes the new British prime minister after a surprise victory for the Conservatives in the general election.
1982: 'God's banker' found hanged
Roberto Calvi, a senior Italian banker, is found dead under Blackfriars Bridge in London more than a week after he went missing from Milan.
1997: Victory for McDonald's - at a cost
Fast food chain McDonald's wins a partial victory in its epic libel trial against two environmental campaigners.
1978: Botham bowls into cricket history
Cricketing star Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.

Wikipedia On This Day
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