August 19: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.095 %
Standard deviation	1.256
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	8
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)	129	44	10	300
Avg. % change	0.136%	0.493%	0.573%	-0.241%
Standard deviation % change	1.373	1.363	1.34	0.86
No. of times price has gone up	11	14	13	2
No. of times price has gone down	9	9	4	3

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

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Yahoo European Business
French Economic Growth Slows in 2Q (AP)
European stock markets aim to end downward run (FT.com)
European stocks set for steady open (FT.com)
Shares close in red; pharma gains fail to offset weak oil stocks (AFP)
European stocks fall amid lower oil price, RBoS China deal (AFP)
Euro-Zone Inflation Rises to 2.2 Percent (AP)
Bourses higher after oil prices fall sharply (FT.com)
Bourses seen strarting higher after oil falls (FT.com)
Shares close weaker on ex-dividend factors (AFP)
London shares close down as concerns over oil price weight on sentiment (AFP)
EU, Euro-Zone Economies Grow 0.3 Percent (AP)

On this day
1908 Harvard University announced that it would open a Graduate School of Business.

BBC - On This Day
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A man shoots 14 people dead in the Berkshire town of Hungerford.
1991: Hardliners stage coup against Gorbachev
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is overthrown in a coup as Communist hardliners take over.
2003: UN envoy dies in Baghdad bombing
A massive bomb wrecks the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 17 people including the UN's chief envoy to Iraq.
1942: Allies launch daring raid on Dieppe
Allied troops, mainly Canadian, pull back after nine hours of heavy fighting on the French coast at Dieppe, northwest of Paris.
1960: Moscow jails American U-2 spy pilot
The United States pilot, Francis Gary Powers, is sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Soviet military court.
1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match
Campaigners calling for the release of robber George Davis from prison vandalise the pitch at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds.

Wikipedia On This Day
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