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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Shire to acquire NPS Pharma in $5.2bn merger

January 11, 2015

UK company Shire is to aquire with NPS Pharmaceuticals, according to a statement by the companies. The two have entered into a merger agreement, with Shire buying all outstanding NPS shares for $46 (£30.48) each, with the total said to be at $5.2bn. According to the statement, Shire will look to accelerate NPS Pharma’s innovative [...]
Trouble for Ukip? Poll shows most Brits think the UK is better off in the EU

January 11, 2015

The majority of Brits think the UK would be better off staying in the EU, according to a YouGov poll for The Times. The poll asked what effect respondents believed a so-called “Brexit” would have on the UK. YouGov asked people if they thought Britain would have more or less influence abroad if it were to [...]
Man accused of being Silk Road creator Dread Pirate Roberts faces trial

January 11, 2015

This week could be the first time the world comes face to face with Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonym of the person behind the “black market bazaar” Silk Road. 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht stands accused of being Roberts, a charge he denies. Roberts has a large price on his head: if found guilty of managing a [...]
General election 2015 TV debates: David Cameron “running scared” says Ed Miliband

January 11, 2015

David Cameron is “running scared” of live TV debates, according to Ed Miliband. Speaking on the Andrew Marr show, the Labour leader claimed the Prime Minister was acting in a “pretty disreputable” manner regarding the debates, after Cameron claimed he would not take part unless the Green Party was also represented. According to the Guardian, [...]
Ebola outbreak: Two vaccines cleared for trials in west Africa

January 11, 2015

Two potential Ebola vaccines have been approved for front-line trials in West Africa. The vaccines, developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co, are expected to begin trails in Liberia at the end of January and Sierra Leone and Guinea in February. The Merck vaccine were temporarily halted in December due to joint pain, a side effect later termed tolerable [...]
Supermarket wars: Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons feeling the pressure in one share price chart

January 8, 2015

Tesco’s share price is up today, and by a lot: 9.8 per cent at the time of writing. All in all, though, it’s been a bad past 12 months for supermarkets, with Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons share prices all sliding against the FTSE, which has itself dropped over the same period. Tesco’s story has been [...]
UK house prices growing at the slowest rate since November 2012

January 8, 2015

House prices grew by 0.3 per cent in December, their slowest rate since the three months to November 2012, according to data released by Halifax. Today's data is further evidence of a sluggish housing market in the second half of the year, slowing from a peak of 3.5 per cent for the three months to [...]
Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, and Sainsbury’s cut petrol prices as Brent crude falls again

January 7, 2015

The UK’s supermarkets are cutting petrol prices as the falling price of oil fuels a pump war. Brent Crude dropped below a symbolic threshold this morning, sliding below $50 a barrel to $49.99. The supermarkets had already blinked, however. Asda capped its petrol prices at 107.7p per litre and diesel at 114.7p from 1 January, [...]
Oil prices are falling again as Brent crude edges closer to $50 a barrel

January 6, 2015

Brent crude is flirting with the $51 a barrel mark, falling again on Tuesday after yesterday’s carnage. Considered an international benchmark, it fell $1.42 to $51.64 in early trading, despite data showing 17 US oil rigs stopped operating in the week leading to 2 January. The fall takes the number of rigs to 1,482 which, [...]
UK immigration map: Is there room for more?

January 5, 2015

In the run up to the general election, there will be a lot of talk about immigration. One argument bandied around is that, as a relatively small island, there just isn’t enough room for newcomers. Anti-establishment party Ukip is trading on its promises to cut immigration, forcing the Conservatives to get tougher. Anti-immigration arguments have [...]

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