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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Blue skies ahead for EasyJet? Profits rise 21.5 per cent

November 18, 2014

EasyJet reported a 21 per cent lift in pre-tax profit for the full year, slightly ahead of its own market guidance. Profit before tax came in at £581m for the 12 months ended 30 September. The airline added it predicts more growth for the first six months of 2015. The profits are the highest reported [...]
Mansion tax talk and cooling London house prices fail to dent Savills expectations

November 18, 2014

Upmarket estate agent Savills is weathering the moderation of the London property market and the fall in commercial trading volumes in Hong Kong, as other global hotspots continue to perform. In an interim statement published today, the group said it has been affected by the threat of a mansion tax, which could be implemented after [...]
US midterm election results mapped: Republicans sweep to victory

November 5, 2014

The US election results are mostly in and the result is a Republican landslide. The Grand Old Party held 14 and gained 8 seats, while the Democrats held 11 and gained zero. At the time of writing, 31 of 34 states had declared with only three, Alaska, Louisiana, and Virginia still to go. Louisiana will [...]
Marks & Spencer share price leaps, despite 13th consecutive fall in clothing sales

November 5, 2014

Shares in Marks & Spencer opened more than eight per cent higher this morning, after it posted expectation-beating half-year results – even though group profits before tax fell 0.4 per cent on the same period last year. In the the 26 weeks to 27 September, like-for-likes in clothing and general merchandise fell 2.2 per cent [...]
Why do immigrants want to come to the UK? It’s not to get benefits or steal British jobs

November 4, 2014

A relatively high proportion of non-UK nationals come the UK to study, and migrants have jobless rates comparable to those of UK nationals, official data suggests. According to an Office of National Statistics analysis of 2011 census data, 14 per cent of all migrants were students, compared to only 9.7 per cent for the UK [...]
2014 US midterm elections predictions map: How will people vote? And when will the results be announced?

November 4, 2014

It’s US mid-term election day and the gloves are off. The biggest prize on offer is control of the Senate and the battle could go down to the wire. Some American news channels are predicting a Republican landslide, with Nate Silver's 538 giving a final prediction of a 70 per cent chance of a Republican [...]
UK house price growth may be slowing, but Persimmon is bullish

November 4, 2014

Persimmon has enjoyed the fruits of 2014’s high house-price inflation, but there were signs in its third quarter figures that a cooling market is beginning to take its toll. The UK’s largest house builder by market capitalisation announced a 12 per cent increase in forward sales totalling £696m in the three months to the end [...]
Eurozone manufacturing: UK outstrips Europe in the battle of the PMIs

November 3, 2014

Manufacturing data published this morning confirmed what many already suspected: manufacturing activity in the UK is outstripping the Eurozone and has opened an economic gap on China. For October, the Eurozone’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) was at 50.6, while China’s was at 50.4. Both a hair’s breadth from the 50 point mark that separates [...]
North Korea sets up Ebola quarantine as West Africa suffers on

November 3, 2014

You might think the world's most reclusive country would be a pretty safe bet when it comes to the risk of an Ebola sufferer turning up there – but North Korea isn't taking any chances. In fact, the country's famously exclusive tourism industry looks set to be hard-hit by the outbreak. Tourists have been banned [...]
Which country has the highest murder rate? Hong Kong remains one of world’s safest despite Rurik Jutting arrest for grisly deaths

November 3, 2014

After 29-year-old British man was arrested in Hong Kong when police found the bodies of two women in his apartment, Hong Kong must be in shock. It is not just the grisly details of the case – one of the women was found decomposing inside a suitcase – but the fact that Hong Kong is [...]

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