By: Billy Ehrenberg

Billy Ehrenberg is a Data Journalist and Content Developer at City A.M. He can be contacted at billy.ehrenberg@cityam.com. He is particularly passionate about data visualisation and telling stories with numbers.

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Cameron looks to increase defence spending – for free

March 11, 2015

There is more than one way to skin a cat – and, it seems, plump up a defence budget. David Cameron has instructed ministers to find out whether the budgets of intelligence agencies can be lumped in as part of defence spending. The UK has come under pressure recently from the US to maintain its [...]
Ocado sales jump 19.2 per cent as company says it expects to keep growing ahead of the curve

March 10, 2015

The figures Ocado’s group sales jumped 19.2 per cent in the 12 weeks to 22 February, rising to £271.1m, from £227.5m during the same period last year. Meanwhile, retail sales were up a similarly impressive 15.2 per cent to £252.0m, two months after the company reported its first profit. Ocado said that on 22 February it had [...]
The US dollar has just hit an 11 year high

March 10, 2015

The US dollar hit an 11-and-a-half year high after it gained half a per cent on the dollar index, rising past the 98 mark. The measure pits the dollar against a selection of other currencies and it shows the dollar has risen by 34 per cent since September 2003. The latest bump came during the [...]
David Cameron’s free schools General Election pledge: Is there one in your area – and what kind is it?

March 9, 2015

David Cameron today announced his government will build another 500 free schools if they win the next election – a policy Labour is staunchly opposed to. The schools, which are free from local authority control, are variously said to boost school places or be a waste of money that risk segregating children from the realities [...]
Doping in cycling: Why middle-aged businessmen are embracing performance-enhancing drugs – and scaring the pros

March 9, 2015

If a professional is taking a drug, what are they likely to be? Cocaine? Alcohol? According to a new Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report into the state of international cycling, that depends on if the businessman's a cyclist. EPO (Erythropoietin) has been the drug of choice for elite athletes across the world. It has powered [...]
Bullish results for Martin Sorrell’s WPP: World’s largest advertising group reports 12 per cent jump in profits

March 9, 2015

2015 has started well for the world’s largest advertising group and its chief Martin Sorrell. The figures WPP has announced a 12 per cent boost in profit before tax during 2014: it rose to £1.5bn, with sales of £11.5bn, five per cent higher than in 2013. The company also started January well, with like-for-like sales rising an [...]
General Election 2015: David Cameron to open 500 extra free schools if Conservatives win

March 9, 2015

The Conservatives are set to double down on free schools, opening a further 500 if they win the General Election. In a speech today, David Cameron said that the government plans to create 270,000 new school places, on top of the final wave of 49 free schools to be opened during the final throws of [...]
General Election 2015: Miliband signs up to three debates, promises to face an empty chair if Cameron won’t attend

March 7, 2015

Ed Miliband has promised to attend all three scheduled televised debates, with or without the Prime Minister. During a speech in Edinburgh, the Labour leader made it clear he was willing to debate, against an empty chair if necessary, whilst simultaneously refusing to be drawn on David Cameron’s challenge to rule out a coalition [...]
Born in a barn, peer-to-peer lender Zopa is about to break £1bn in loans

March 7, 2015

Peer-to-peer (P2P) is all the rage, with companies like TransferWise now all but household names and the descriptively named Lending Club, the largest US P2P company, recently becoming the first to IPO. What isn’t so well known is that Zopa, one of the peer-to-peer innovators, was founded in a barn, helping to spawn an [...]
Glaxosmithkline China dismisses more than 100 over bribery scandal that cost company £300m

March 7, 2015

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has booted more than 100 staff in China on the back of its investigations into the corruption scandal that ended with it being fined £300m last year. The company was found guilty last September of bribing doctors to prescribe its medicines, and began an internal investigation to ascertain the extent of the corruption. [...]

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