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 unemployment rate falls to 5.8 per cent as wages rise again

January 21, 2015

The UK’s unemployment rate has dropped again between September and November, falling from six per cent in the previous three months to 5.8 per cent. The news will further cheer the Conservative party, as it seeks to build an election campaign based on its economic record. There was more good news too: wages were up [...]
London house prices: Capital would be hit disproportionately by mansion tax

January 20, 2015

The extent to which London will be disproportionately hit by a new mansion tax has been revealed by new research looking into the most expensive properties in the UK Labour has proposed a tax on properties worth over £2m, which, according to research by Knight Frank, means 2.5 per cent of properties in London would [...]
Global internet users mapped: Google mulls SpaceX investment to bring developing world online

January 20, 2015

Google is considering an investment in Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, as part of a plan to deliver internet by satellite to the developing world and other areas that lack coverage. The deal has not been finalised, but would value SpaceX at around the $10bn (£6.6bn) mark, and would be a significant boost to the aim [...]
London house prices: Unseasonable heat in the capital’s housing market

January 19, 2015

After a muted end to 2014, London house prices grew 0.9 per cent in January, compared to just 0.2 per cent in the first month of 2014. 10 of the 32 boroughs surveyed by Rightmove reported asking prices having dropped in January, with the positive score for the region pushed up by some top performers. [...]
UK house prices rise unexpectedly: Stamp duty to the rescue?

January 19, 2015

Are these the first signs of a bounce back in the property market? Data from Rightmove, a property portal, has shown that average asking prices have risen by 1.4 per cent in January. This may not sound like a huge leap back to the heady heights of last summer, but January is not traditionally a [...]
David Cameron renews pledge to lead UK to full employment, but what is it?

January 19, 2015

David Cameron has said that he and the Conservatives are committed to full employment in Britain. The UK, Cameron said, would be a "jobs factory," with benefit caps lowered and immigrants' access to welfare limited. To achieve this goal, Cameron pledged to help small businesses, saying: “we’re the party of the roofers and the retailers; [...]
Intel smashes earnings expectations

January 15, 2015

It was a strong end to 2014 for Intel. The world’s largest maker of semiconductors reported revenue of $55.9bn (£36.8bn) for the full year, a bump of six per cent on last year’s figure. That jump was matched by the fourth quarter figure: also up six per cent, this time to $14.7bn. The results were [...]
Target Canada to close all 133 stores, putting 17,600 jobs at risk

January 15, 2015

Target is to pull the plug on its Canadian operation after its chief executive said it was unable to find a route to profitability before 2021. Target has 133 stores in Canada and 17,600 staff, and is looking to offer the vast majority 16 weeks of wages to compensate them for redundancies. The payout will [...]
Government commissions “urgent review” into North Sea oil after BP job cuts

January 15, 2015

The fall in oil prices may be good for consumers at the pumps, but the oil industry is suffering. Malcolm Webb, the head of lobby group oil and Gas UK, called for a 50 per cent cut in North Sea taxes after BP announced it would be cutting 300 jobs in Aberdeen, and the energy [...]
London is the most expensive city in the world to build in

January 15, 2015

Central London is now the most expensive city in the world to build in, according to research by dutch consultancy Arcadis. London overtook Switzerland at the top of the list, as the strength of the sterling against the euro accelerated price inflation. The report looked at 40 nations and concluded that it is now five [...]

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