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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EBA stress test results: UK banks respond

October 27, 2014

It was a good day for UK banks yesterday as all of them passed the European Banking Authority (EBA) stress tests. The banks under scrutiny were Barclays, Lloyds, RBS and HSBC. The threshold for passing the test was a common equity tier one ratio of 5.5 per cent, a measure of the strength of their [...]
Petra’s revenue up 55 per cent on sale of rare diamond

October 27, 2014

Petra Diamonds’s first quarter revenue jumped 55 per cent, boosted by the sale of a 122 carat blue diamond. Revenue jumped to $100.8m (£62.1m) in the first quarter, up from $65.1m for quarter one last year. Petra sold an 85 per cent interest in the rare diamond for $23.5m back in September. The revenue gain was [...]
In charts: Eurozone debt grows to 92.7 per cent of GDP

October 23, 2014

Figures released by the European statistics authority today show government debt in the Eurozone grew to 92.7 per cent of GDP in the second quarter of 2014, a jump of 0.8 percentage points. In the European Union the level rose to 87 per cent of GDP, a rise of 1.9 percentage points. So how much [...]
Tesco share price: The rise and fall of a retail empire in one chart

October 23, 2014

We knew it was bleak for Tesco, we were just waiting to put a figure to the despair. Now we know: the profit overstatement was understated by £13m (the final figure was £263m) and a 91.9 per cent plunge in pre-tax profits to £112 million for the first half of the year. The results are [...]
UK and European migration map: Why immigration is good for the economy and immigrants aren’t stealing British jobs

October 22, 2014

When outgoing European Commission president José Manuel Barroso accused David Cameron of potentially making a “historic mistake” with plans to call a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, he may have had a point. Cameron has faced heavy criticism for his increasing focus on curbing immigration in response to Ukip’s growing [...]
London property: Average house price edges closer to £600,000

October 21, 2014

The average asking price for a house in Greater London is now £596,000. But although this figure is huge, analysts believe that the long-term trend is for a slowing market, even in the capital. Data from Rightmove shows prices in the capital have climbed seven per cent over the last month, and 9.6 [...]
Ebola outbreak map: Why has the disease spread so fast in Liberia? And how many people have died in the country so far?

October 20, 2014

The Ebola crisis has hit one country worse than all the others: Liberia has suffered an estimated 46 per cent of cases and, at 1,200, twice as many deaths as any other country. Sierra Leone and Guinea, the other two countries where the disease is widely transmitted, are suffering too, but the disease is at [...]
UK property: South east overtakes London as region with fastest-growing house prices

October 20, 2014

The south east has overtaken London as the region with the fastest-growing house prices, figures published today show – despite the average asking price in the capital hitting £596,000 in the year to October. According to research by Rightmove and Oxford Economics, prices in the capital grew 9.6 per cent during the period, while [...]
Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive discusses design process in rare video

October 19, 2014

Apple's Jony Ive has given some rare insight into the Apple design process. In an interview at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, which is available on YouTube, Apple's design guru talks about the excitement he feels for the design process. Ive talked about the dangers of allowing a feature to taker precedent over a better [...]
Ministry of Defence expected to sell Defence Support Group, its equipment repair and maintenance arm

October 19, 2014

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is expected to sell the Defence Support Group (DSG) next month as part of a move to transfer billions of pounds of work to private companies. The sale, most likely to Babcock, KBR, or General Dynamics, will net between £200m and £300m for the MoD, at a time when its [...]

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