November 24: FTSE100 Performance Analysis For This Day

Average percentage change for this day	0.259 %
Standard deviation	0.889
No. of times the FTSE has gone down today since 1984	4
No. of times FTSE has gone up today since 1984	9

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Metals data for today

	Gold	Silver	Platinum	Paladium
Day ranking (out of 365)	158	136	165	311
Avg. % change	0.075%	0.153%	0.08%	-0.3%
Standard deviation % change	0.657	1.628	0.835	0.749
No. of times price has gone up	11	12	10	0
No. of times price has gone down	10	11	10	4

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

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Yahoo European Business
European bourses extend gains (FT.com)
European bourses poised to extend gains (FT.com)
Leading shares approach 54-month highs (AFP)
European stocks mostly rise in early deals (AFP)
European bourses set for higher open (FT.com)
Nestle Recalls Baby Milk From 4 Nations (AP)
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)
Euro hits 2-week high vs dollar (Reuters)
EU ministers to vent anger at UK over budget (Reuters)

On this day
1998 AOL bought Netscape Communications for $4.21bn.
1997 In response to a 554 point fall in the market, NYSE officials invoked the ""circuit breaker"" rule for the first time and put a halt to trading.

BBC - On This Day
1963: Kennedy 'assassin' murdered
Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of murdering President Kennedy, is himself shot dead in a Dallas police station.
1985: Commandoes storm hijacked plane
The hijacking of an EgyptAir passenger jet ends in violence and further bloodshed after the plane is stormed by Egyptian commandoes.
1991: Giant of rock dies
Freddie Mercury dies aged 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive.
1989: New era for Czechoslovakia
The entire leadership of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigns to make way for democratic changes.
1974: Six charged over Birmingham pub bombs
Police charge six men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings three days ago.
1998: Queen's speech spells end for peers
Under new proposals hereditary peers will lose their right to sit and vote in the UK Parliament's upper chamber.

Wikipedia On This Day
Wikipedia entry for November 24