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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In charts: Bonuses help push UK wage growth up to 2.1 per cent as unemployment falls

February 18, 2015

The UK’s unemployment rate tumbled to 5.7 per cent between October and December, while growth in pay rose to its highest since 2013, according to "corking" figures published by the Office for National Statistics today. Pay leapt 0.4 percentage points to 2.1 per cent including bonuses, but slowed to 1.7 per cent excluding bonuses. The [...]
UK house prices interactive: How every region has recovered from the crisis

February 17, 2015

UK house price growth has been the topic of much speculation, with fears of a bubble and loud criticism of a lack of new homes. Recent house price growth has been especially strong in London, where it reach an annual rate of 20.1 per cent last May, and the capital continues to lead the country [...]
Greece in crisis: Inflation drop the biggest since November 2013

February 17, 2015

Interactive: Inflation rates in every EU economy Greece’s negotiations with the European establishment have collapsed and the country's inflation rate is going in the same direction. It hasn’t just crossed the threshold, it’s been in deflation for a while, but the drop in prices was steeper than expected: a 2.8 per cent reverse year-on-year represents [...]
In charts: London house prices are now 2.3 per cent below their peak

February 17, 2015

London house price growth is slowing along with the UK’s, according to new data. In December, prices in the capital were 2.3 per cent below their August peak, with the rate of growth slowing from 15.3 per cent to 13.3 per cent. Back in May, London prices were on an annual growth roll of 20.1 [...]
Interactive: UK inflation hits 0.3 per cent, but how does it compare to other European Union countries?

February 17, 2015

UK inflation slowed to 0.3 per cent in January, lower than December’s figure of 0.5 per cent and a good distance below the two per cent target for the Bank of England. More on this story: UK inflation falls to its lowest since records began But the UK is not alone in missing targets: the [...]
Careless drivers and cyclists be warned: Revived Operation Safeway fines could raise millions as London road deaths triple

February 16, 2015

A tripling of deaths on London’s roads has led Scotland Yard to re-implement a highway safety organisation. Since the beginning of 2015, 29 people have been killed on the capital’s roads; over the same period last year the figure was 10. The scale of the operation will be impressive: 600 officers positioned at 166 selected [...]
UK house prices: Is the government’s pension reform about to put strain on the property market?

February 16, 2015

Britain is in the grip of a property shortage, and it could be about to get worse. New legislation means that from April many pensioners will be able to cash-in their pension pots, with many expected to invest in the buy to let market. The market seems ill-prepared for such interest. Data from Rightmove, the [...]
UK house prices: Housing shortage means property costs grow at fastest rate in 10 months

February 16, 2015

Has a bombshell has landed in the housing market this morning? Britain’s chronic shortage of homes is the main driver behind the average asking price for a property surging by £5,729, or 2.1 per cent, this month, after what had looked to be a tempering market. The 2.1 per cent rise in February is up [...]
Inflation worries shaped Bank of England interest rate vote

February 15, 2015

Worries about the UK’s economy entering into a deflationary spiral stayed the hand of two Bank of England board members who had wanted an early interest rate rise. Martin Weale, an inflation hawk and independent member of the monetary policy committee, wrote an article for the Observer, in which eh explained the reasons for his [...]
Ukraine crisis: Ceasefire violated within an hour, but is largely holding

February 15, 2015

The Ukrainian ceasefire agreement lasted all of 50 minutes. Both sides accused the other of having broken the accord, with the telling shots fired near the town of Debaltseve, where 6,000 government troops are being besieged by separatist forces. Both sides allege that within an hour of the midnight cease in hostilities, artillery shells were [...]

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