November 17: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0.001 %
Standard deviation	1.035
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	8
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	5

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)	327	162	323	230
Avg. % change	-0.274%	0.085%	-0.331%	-0.083%
Standard deviation % change	1.11	1.776	1.997	0.552
No. of times price has gone up	10	10	9	2
No. of times price has gone down	10	11	11	3

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

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Yahoo European Business
EU set to trim 2005 eurozone growth estimate (AFP)
European stocks slip amid easing oil prices (AFP)
Oil Prices Push Euro-Zone Inflation Up (AP)
Modest retreat expected in European opening (FT.com)
Vodafone share price plummets (FT.com)
London shares close in the red (AFP)
German Economy Grows 1.3 Percent for 3Q (AP)
Eurozone growth ups chances of rate increase (FT.com)
Eurozone economy strengthens under inflation clouds (AFP)
EU Confident 2006 Will Be Year of Recovery (AP)
German Parties Seal Deal for Merkel (AP)

On this day
1948 House of Commons voted to nationalise steel industry.

BBC - On This Day
1997: Egyptian militants kill tourists at Luxor
More than 60 people die in an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in southern Egypt.
1989: Police crush Prague protest rally
Riot police arrest hundreds of people taking part in the biggest show of public dissent in Czechoslovakia for 20 years.
2003: Washington sniper convicted
An ex-soldier who served in the Gulf War is found guilty of at least one of the Washington sniper killings in October 2002.
1953: Twenty die in Channel collision
Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.
1986: French car chief shot dead
The head of the Renault car company, Georges Besse, is assassinated outside his home in Paris.

Wikipedia On This Day
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