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 productivity puzzle: Country falls behind the G7

October 19, 2014

The UK is opening a large productivity gap between itself and the other G7 nations – in the wrong direction. According to data released by the Office of National Statistics, output per hour in the UK is 17 percentage points below the G7 average, while on a per-worker basis the UK was 19 points behind. [...]
Sweden hunts for suspected Russian submarine

October 19, 2014

Sweden's military is searching for "foreign underwater activity" less than 31 miles from Stockholm. According to Reuters, the mobilisation of troops, ships and helicopters is on a scale not seen since the depths of the cold war. Russia's bellicose actions in Ukraine are making nations in the Baltic and Nordic regions uneasy. Stockholm is just across the [...]
Google shares drop 3 per cent as it misses expectations

October 16, 2014

Google's profits fell but its revenues jumped 20 per cent as its results fell just short of expectations. Wall Street had been expecting revenue excluding commissions of $13.22bn, but the figure came in at $13.17. Earnings per share were $6.35 rather than the $6.53 analysts had predicted. Google's shares were down 1 per cent on [...]
Apple iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 launch: New releases show Tim Cook’s strategy

October 16, 2014

Tim Cook called it a speed bump: Apple's global quarterly iPad sales were down to 13.28 million in the last quarter, the lowest they'd been since Q2 2012. Read about the iPad launch here. So rather than panic, Apple seems to have decided it just needs to refine its product. As Ernest Doku, telecoms expert at [...]
Apple iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3: Specifications, prices and UK release date. Which rumours were true?

October 16, 2014

After releasing the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 unofficially and erroneously yesterday, Apple has lifted the curtain again with far more fanfare. We already knew what both iPads would be called and that they would feature touch ID. With revamped cameras, boosted processing power and updated designs Apple was branding the ne iPad [...]
Eurozone inflation falls to 0.3 per cent

October 16, 2014

More disinflation for the Eurozone. The flash estimates were correct and inflation in the Eurozone has slowed to 0.3 per cent in the year to September. With second-quarter GDP growth also sclerotic at 0.2 in the euro area, there isn’t much to cheer. Industrial production has been weak and France looks on collision [...]
Apple iPad launch: Company accidentally releases photos of “iPad Air 2” and “iPad Mini 3”

October 15, 2014

Anticipation was mounting. The iPhone had whet the appetite for Apple release season. Then Apple, famed for secrecy, posted secret pictures on iTunes. A leak on the iTunes store shows pictures of the new devices – named the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 – in a user manuel for iOS8, Apple's new mobile [...]
Lloyd’s sells €1.1bn of bad bank to Lone Star

October 15, 2014

Lloyds has jettisoned €1.1bn (£883m) of bad bank. Lloyds Banking Group, which is partly owned by the UK government, has sold its Irish residential home loans to Lone Star, a US private equity group. Lloyds's Irish operation was heavily loss-making and, according to the FT, had £13.4bn of Irish loans left in its [...]
Dow falls over 400 points as S&P 500 goes into negative terriatory for the year

October 15, 2014

Drops in US stocks have sent the S&P 500 into negative territory for the year, while the Dow dived over 400 points. At the time of writing the Dow had recovered from its 15,855 low to 15,595, still 2.02 per cent lower than at the open. The S&P 500 was down 2.1 per cent at pixel [...]
Oil prices have hit a four-year low

October 15, 2014

Brent crude was continuing its long march down today. Already below $90 a barrel, the benchmark price has now gone south of $82. This cost represents the lowest price in four years, dragged down by a deluge of supply and dwindling demand. The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently reduced its 2014 forecast for global oil [...]

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