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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Danish police shoot man suspected of two terrorist attacks in Copenhagen, which left two dead and five injured.

February 15, 2015

Danish police have killed the man suspected of two shootings in Copenhagen. The earlier attacks left two people dead and five injured in what the police called terrorist attacks. Police said the suspect approached premises in the Dansih capital which were under surveillance and refused to stop when ordered to do so by the police. [...]
General Election 2015: David Cameron’s approval rating at its highest for four years – poll

February 15, 2015

He who laughs last in May will laugh the loudest, but David Cameron may allow himself a wry chuckle today after the results of a new poll put his personal rating at 41per cent, 18 points higher than that of Ed Miliband. According to the Opinium poll for the Observer, Cameron’s rating is the highest [...]
Booze Britain? Why over-65s are the UK’s fastest growing group of binge drinkers

February 13, 2015

We’ve all seen them: in bars, on the streets, in the parks. Yep, the alarming statistic is true: young people in Britain going teetotal. And if you think the world is turning tipsy-turvey consider this: the fastest growing group of binge drinkers is the over 65s. According to data published by the Office for National [...]
Anglo American’s losses jump 161 per cent after $3.9bn asset writedown

February 13, 2015

The figures The commodities slump has crushed Anglo American: the miner posted figures today showing it took $3.9bn (£2.5bn) in impairment charges in 2014 after it was forced to dramatically cut the prices of its assets. The pain didn't stop there. With iron ore prices having halved in 2014 it was always going to be [...]
Merkel refuses to budge on Greek debt repayments: “Europe’s credibility depends on us sticking to the rules”

February 13, 2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a hard line with Greece: the country's options are limited to completing all the requirements of the €172bn (£127.5bn) bailout or asking for an extension, she said last night. Ostensibly at least, there is no wiggle room for Athens, and no room for its preferred option of a revised [...]
Ukraine crisis: Vladimir Putin announces ceasefire after Minsk talks

February 12, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that a ceasefire for eastern Ukraine will begin on 15 February. The announcement comes after marathon talks in Minsk, which swayed between reports a deal could be imminent and claims that Russia's terms were unacceptable. With the news comes an announcement from the IMF, which reported it would replace [...]
Rio Tinto announces capital return, buys back $2bn in shares

February 12, 2015

The figures Rio Tinto shareholders are waking to the news they had been waiting for: the miner will conduct a $2bn (£1.3bn) share buyback. In the miner's full year results, published today, Rio Tinto revealed its underlying earnings had dropped to $9.3bn for the 12 months ending 31 December 2014, down from $10.2bn in 2013. [...]
Ukraine crisis: Valdimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko agree to sign joint document – reports

February 12, 2015

It had seemed could be light at the end of the tunnel for Ukraine. After marathon peace talks in Minsk involving Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko it was reported that both Putin and Poroshenko would sign a joint document; offering [...]
Terrorism mapped: After the British Yemen embassy is evacuated which countries have the highest threat level and where is it safest to travel?

February 11, 2015

The US, Britain and France have closed their embassies in Yemen and urged their citizens to leave the country after Shia rebels secured a power-grab in the country last week. Yemen has now been given a “high” rating for the likelihood of a terror attack, with the UK Home Office advising against all travel to [...]
Forget slowing UK house prices, Redrow just doubled its profits

February 11, 2015

The figures Redrow, the British housebuilder, has revealed a bumper set of half-year results (to 31 December) this morning, showing revenue up 54 per cent to £560.6m and pre-tax profit up 92 per cent to £91.2m, in a rosy assessment of the market’s demand for new homes. The impressive results allowed the group to double [...]

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