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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London house price growth slows: How do the other regions compare?

September 30, 2014

UK house price growth slowed to 9.4 per cent in the year to September, figures published Tuesday showed, down 11 per cent from last month. Between August and September, monthly growth fell 0.2 per cent – the first drop in 17 months, the figures from Nationwide showed. As the building society's chief economist, Robert Gardner, [...]
Eurozone inflation falls to 0.3 per cent as euro hits two year low against the dollar

September 30, 2014

Eurozone inflation has dropped again, falling from a sluggish 0.4 per cent to 0.3 per cent. Expectations of the fall pushed the Euro to a two-year low of $1.2659 against the dollar in morning trading. While the figure was in line with expectations, it was nevertheless disappointing, and is likely to increase pressure on the [...]
UK house prices drop for the first time in 17 months

September 30, 2014

UK house prices have dropped for the first time in 17 months, dipping 0.2 per cent between August and September. In price terms, this means a drop of £931 for the average residential property, from £189,306 to £188,374. The data, from Nationwide, shows the annualised growth rate also slowed to 9.4 per cent from 11 [...]
Ryder Cup Golf 2014: Which US state has produced the most players?

September 25, 2014

The Ryder Cup is in full swing, but which US state is the most prolific provider of golfers? It may not surprise you to learn that it's a straight shootout between California and Texas, two of the most populous areas of the US. California has provided 11 players since 1979 (when the Europe v US [...]
Mark Carney: Bank of England will get tough on the insurance industry

September 25, 2014

The Bank of England is cracking down on malpractice in the insurance industry, governor Mark Carney said today. In a speech this afternoon, Carney indicated regulators will come down hard on insurance companies that give a distorted view of risk to decrease the amount of capital they are expected to hold. A new regime, known [...]
Mark Carney drops interest rate rise hint as “many of the conditions for the economy to normalise [are] now met”

September 25, 2014

Interest rates will be rising soon. In a speech this afternoon mainly focused on the insurance industry, Mark Carney reiterated the Bank of England's stance on interest rates, and indicated that they will be rising before long. The Bank governor would not give a precise time scale, but saw the pieces falling in to place: [...]
Support for Welsh independence hits record low after Scottish referendum

September 24, 2014

After the drama of the Scottish referendum, support for Welsh independence has fallen to its lowest ever level. 44.7 per cent of Scots votedf for independence, but only three per cent of Welsh people want to be independent. According to a BBC/ICM poll 49 per cent thought that the Welsh Assembly should have more control while [...]
GoPro share price is up 173 per cent on IPO price

September 24, 2014

Go-Pro shares are up 173 per cent on their IPO value. The huge rise began when shares launched at $28.65 on 26 September: they were priced at $78.25 at the time of writing. It hasn't all been plain sailing, stocks took a pounding after the first quarterly report came out, falling around 12 per cent, despite [...]
France sees first drop in unemployment this year

September 24, 2014

It may well be just a blip, but the number of unemployed people in France has fallen by 0.3 per cent, month on month. This is the first such drop since October last year and comes despite a 26,000 rise in the number of unemployed persons in July and a predicted jump of 16,000 in [...]
Euro falls against the dollar to its lowest in 15 months

September 24, 2014

And down goes the Euro. The currency has dropped below $1.28 a depth it hasn't plumbed since July 2013. Unemployment remains too high in the Eurozone, GDP remains too low and inflation is in Draghi's less-than-one-per cent danger zone. And the good news doesn't stop there. Germany's manufacturing sector, long a bulwark of its economy, [...]

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