November 22: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	-0.202 %
Standard deviation	1.03
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	7
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)	94	171	117	119
Avg. % change	0.192%	0.055%	0.189%	0.062%
Standard deviation % change	0.955	1.401	0.899	0.392
No. of times price has gone up	15	12	11	2
No. of times price has gone down	6	10	7	2

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

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Yahoo European Business
Bourses expected to hit fresh 3½-year highs (FT.com)
Britain warns France: back down on EU handouts or fail world's poor (AFP)
Bourses welcome onset of winter (FT.com)
Leading shares close just below gain line as Glaxo drops (AFP)
European stocks mixed, as London hit by profit-taking (AFP)
Euro hits 2-week high vs dollar (Reuters)
EU ministers to vent anger at UK over budget (Reuters)
EU Growth May Be 1.5 Percent in 2005 (AP)
EU set to trim 2005 eurozone growth estimate (AFP)
Oil Prices Push Euro-Zone Inflation Up (AP)
London shares close in the red (AFP)

On this day
2001 Low-cost airline Ryanair announced they would be opening an operating base in Germany at Frankfurt signalling a determination to take on the European operators at their own game.

BBC - On This Day
1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
The president of the United States has been assassinated by a gunman in Dallas, Texas.
1995: Life sentence for Rosemary West
Britain's most prolific female serial killer, Rosemary West, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.
1990: Thatcher quits as prime minister
Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her cabinet refuses to back her in a second round of leadership elections.
2003: England win Rugby World Cup
England's rugby team win the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nailbiting final in Sydney.
1997: Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel
The lead singer of Australian rock band INXS and partner of British television star Paula Yates, is found dead in Sydney.
1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy
Five teenagers and their female instructor die in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for November 22