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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UK house prices come roaring back in January: Mortgage rates, stamp duty or just an outlier?

February 5, 2015

The night is always darkest before the dawn, but house prices have skipped the daybreak formalities to come bouncing back. According to Halifax, the figures are bullish: 1.9 per cent quarterly growth hasn’t been seen since September, and the two per cent monthly bounce hasn’t been bested since last February. Annually, and perhaps most reliably, [...]
BT share price soars after agreeing deal to buy mobile network EE for £12.5bn

February 5, 2015

BT's share price soared today after it agreed terms to buy mobile phone network EE for £12.5bn. The deal, which will give BT access to EE’s 31m customers and the largest 4G network in Europe, will be paid in a combination of cash and ordinary BT shares, issued to both Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Orange. The transfer [...]
BT agrees deal to buy mobile network EE for £12.5bn

February 5, 2015

BT has agreed terms to buy mobile phone network EE for a massive £12.5bn. The deal, which will give BT access to EE’s 31m customers and the largest 4G network in Europe will be paid in a combination of cash and ordinary BT shares, issued to both Deutsche Telekom and Orange. The transfer of shares will mean [...]
Wizz Air IPO: Budget airline reschedules float

February 4, 2015

Hungarian airline Wizz Air will get its UK IPO after all. The budget carrier had expected to list in the UK last June, but pulled the plug, pointing the finger at volatile share prices among its competitors. Now, Wizz seems ready to launch in the UK again, sometime in the first quarter of this year. The [...]
Standard & Poor’s settles for $1.4bn over ratings allegations

February 3, 2015

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has reached a settlement with US authorities to pay $1.4bn (£900m) over claims it handed out inflated ratings to debt tranches based on US mortgages. Prosecutors alleged S&P did so despite knowing risks were building in the market. McGraw Hill, which owns S&P, has agreed to pay $687.5m to the US [...]
BP share price rises, despite profit slumping as oil price slide takes its toll

February 3, 2015

BP's share price opened up this morning after the oil and gas giant reported better than expected results for the year. The numbers The oil price fall has been taking its toll. Underlying profits in the final three months of 2014 were down 20 per cent on a year earlier at $2.2bn (£1.5bn). Including [...]
Eurozone manufacturing sector is growing at its fastest rate for six months

February 2, 2015

As many headline stats for the Eurozone continue to cause headaches for markets and governments alike, there was a tiny spark of good news from the bloc‘s manufacturers. The purchasing managers’ index (PMI), compiled by Markit Economics, showed that the manufacturing sector’s rate of growth rose by 0.4 percentage points in January, to 51. Any [...]
CRH wins race for Lafarge and Holcim assets, paying €6.5bn

February 2, 2015

Irish building supplies company CRH has announced a €6.5bn (£4.9bn) deal to buy the assets that Lafarge and Holcim were obliged to sell before they merged. Lafarge and Holcim will gain €5bn (£3.75bn) in cash after debts of €1.3bn are paid, according to Bruno Lafont, Lafarge’s chief executive. CRH beat a consortium headed by Blackstone, [...]
A British healthcare worker is being monitored for Ebola

January 31, 2015

A UK military healthcare worker is being monitored for Ebola after suffering a needle injury in Sierra Leone. The person has been returned to the UK as a precaution as the risk of infection from a needle is high as Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids. At present, the wprker is showing no symptoms and [...]
Are City workers using vitamin drips to cure hangovers?

January 31, 2015

City traders will go to great lengths to recover from evening revelry, according to a doctor from Surrey. According to ITV, Dr. Natalie Blakely of Weybridge’s Light touch Clinic said that she often visits brokers in their homes and hotel rooms to hook them up to vitamin drips- at £200 a pop. The drips [...]

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