June 7: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.16 %
Standard deviation	0.775
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	9
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	6

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)	6	139	204	73
Avg. % change	0.634%	0.144%	-0.008%	0.158%
Standard deviation % change	1.921	2.01	1.228	0.593
No. of times price has gone up	12	13	10	2
No. of times price has gone down	6	9	9	2

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

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Yahoo European Business
Euro falls to 11-mth low versus yen (Reuters)
Euro finmins dismiss euro break-up talk as nonsense (Reuters)
EU ministers say there should be June budget deal (Reuters)
EU political crisis clouds eurozone finance talks (AFP)
EU Finance Ministers Stand by Euro (AP)
Dollar weaker after recent gains (Reuters)
European stocks begin week steady (AFP)
EU crisis clouds eurozone talks (AFP)
Euro firms against dollar (AFP)
Euro rallies before US jobs data and after brief slide (AFP)
EU crisis escalates after referendums (Reuters)

On this day
2000 Judge Jackson ordered Microsoft to be broken up into two companies, and ordered it to change its conduct towards it competitors. (The Appeals Court later overturned the ruling that Microsoft be split in two.)
2001 A Los Angeles jury ordered the tobacco company Philip Morris to pay more than $3bn to a smoker suffering from terminal cancer who said the company did not warn him of the dangers of smoking.
1988 The Economist Commodity Inds/Metals Index hit 154.6 - its historic high.

BBC - On This Day
1942: Japanese beaten in Battle of Midway
The United States routs the Japanese Navy in a major three-day battle over a remote military base at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi capital for fear it would be used to make atom bombs.
1977: Queen celebrates Silver Jubilee
More than one million people line the streets of London to watch the Royal Family on their way to St Paul's at the start of the Queen's silver jubilee celebrations.
1990: Beef export ban lifted
France, West Germany and Italy lift a ban on British beef-on-the-bone after reaching a deal in Brussels
2000: Blair 'handbagged' by the WI
The UK prime minister is heckled and criticised by Women's Institute members as he gives a speech at their conference.

Wikipedia On This Day
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