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 can be the richest major economy in the world says George Osborne

January 14, 2015

George Osborne has revealed a plan to make the UK the most prosperous nation in the UK by the 2030s, as he sought to portray a Tory government with more to offer than another parliament of austerity. Speaking in a lecture at the Royal Economic Society, Osborne said that any future government should “aim to [...]
Copy of Charlie Hebdo sells for £100,000 on eBay

January 14, 2015

The print run for Charlie Hebdo’s first issue since the attack on its offices was extended to 5m copies, with huge sums apparently changing hands. There were long queues around kiosks in France as the paper sold out, forcing the paper to extend its print run to 5m copies. In the UK, there was also [...]
Tesla shares down six per cent after Elon Musk admits to underwhelming sales in China

January 14, 2015

Shares in Tesla have dropped over six per cent today, tumbling below $200 a share after comments from its high-profile founder, Elon Musk. Musk, seen as a rockstar investor and chief executive, told journalists at the Detroit Auto show that Tesla’s sales in China were underwhelming in the fourth quarter, giving investors a nasty case [...]
London house prices: Can stamp duty save the capital from a demand crisis?

January 14, 2015

Demand for houses has been falling in the housing market for six months, or eight if you live in London. It doesn’t feel so long ago we were talking about booms and whispering of bubbles, but that's gone for now. The latest figures from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors reveals that 10 per cent [...]
Russian Bank Alfa to close New York office and scale back London operations as US and European sanctions bite

January 13, 2015

Russia’s Alfa Bank will close its New York office and slim down its London operation, according to Bloomberg. The scaling back of operations reflects the “level of interest in the Russian market” Alfa’s Moscow spokesman told Bloomberg. Russian firms have been under increasing pressure due to US and European sanctions, which have effectively frozen them [...]
Facebook to put warnings on violent videos

January 13, 2015

Facebook has started warning users about the content of violent videos, asking users to confirm they want to proceed to content that could “shock, offend and upset.” Before the changes, which have been slowly rolled out since September, content would auto-play in users’ news feeds without asking for confirmation. The restrictions are only applied to [...]
Mark Carney says deflation is possible and wouldn’t be a problem, refuses to be tied to date for interest rate hike

January 13, 2015

Mark Carney has tonight refused to rule out the UK entering deflation after figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed the Consumer Price Index slowed to just 0.5 per cent in December. Speaking to ITV, the governor of the Bank of England said that deflation was possible “in a given month on a year-on-year [...]
Is Waterstones about to buy Tesco’s Blinkbox Books?

January 13, 2015

Another portion of Tesco’s failed venture Blinkbox could be about to be carved off and sold on. Waterstones looks set to buy Blinkbox books, after Tesco sold Blinkbox Movies to TalkTalk and Blinkbox Music to Guvera. Tesco made the decision to sell Blinkbox as part of a turnaround plan aimed, unsurprisingly, at reversing the poor [...]
US Centcom Twitter account hacked by pro-Islamic State “CyberCaliphate”

January 12, 2015

The US Central Command (Centcom), perhaps the most powerful unified command in the US military armoury, has had its Twitter account hacked and made to read “I love you isis.” The Twitter account, which is run by Centcom, was hacked by a group calling themselves the “CyberCaliphate.” The hackers replaced Centcom’s profile picture with an [...]
UK house prices: Total value of UK residential property hits £5.8tn

January 12, 2015

The combined cost of all the homes in the UK has increased by almost a trillion in the last five years, according to data from the estate agent Savills. Adding the values of all the homes in Britain makes a heady total of £5.75 trillion, or 2.7 times the UK’s GDP. The region with by [...]

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