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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Ebola outbreak: Black market trade in blood serum worries World Health Organisation

September 13, 2014

As the Ebola outbreak continues and reports emerge of hospitals turning suffering people away, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed the black market trade in treatments produced from survivors' blood. As this fantastic map from the BBC shows, almost every region in Sierra Leone and Liberia has reported deaths, and the disease is continuing [...]
Boris Johnson will be the Conservative candidate in Uxbridge

September 13, 2014

Cameron's star player will be on the field in 2015, after he was selected to contest the safe Tory seat in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Johnson professed himself "thrilled" and said he expected the Tories to win in the general election in 2015. The Mayor of London, currently serving his second term in the post, [...]
UK employment rises by second fastest rate in the EU (after Hungary)

September 12, 2014

The United Kingdom enjoyed the EU's second largest rise in employment in the 12 months to July, with the annualised rate up 2.7 per cent (seasonally adjusted). Only Hungary – at 3.1 per cent year on year – saw a faster rise. Eurostat released figures for employment rates across the European Union today, showing second [...]
Russia’s counter-sanctions: Used cars and clothes

September 12, 2014

The new EU sanctions to be levelled at Russia from this morning will be harsh. They will further restrict Russian oil firms such as Rosneft, Transneft and Gazprom from borrowing or raising capital on the EU markets. This is a big deal for the Russian companies, with Rosneft already having gone cap in hand to the [...]
Russia sanctions: Private flights to Nice down 5pc as jets grounded

September 12, 2014

Western sanctions are grounding private jets and disrupting the holiday plans of wealthy Russians, according to Bloomberg. The measures are aimed at restricting travel for leading Russian business people and the article quotes Umberto Vallino, head of business aviation development for Nice, Cannes and St. Tropez airports, as confirming a first drop in private air traffic [...]
In charts: Half of women don’t have private pensions

September 11, 2014

Despite the maximum state pension being only £113.10 a week, just under half the people in the UK don't pay into a private pension scheme. This includes a third of employees – half of the self-employed and 80 per cent of unemployed people are also without a plan. The data was published by the Office [...]
No change in the gender split and none of the most populous six countries gets a vice presidency: Who’s who in Juncker’s commission

September 11, 2014

Back in 2012, the European Commission decided it would tackle gender inequality and "break the glass ceiling that continues to bar female talent from top positions in Europe’s biggest companies." The target it set was 40 per cent, despite the fact that at the time the gender split was 19-9 in its own executive – [...]
More than half of the Chinese public expects a war with Japan

September 10, 2014

Their leaders' bickering over the Senkaku islands and a long history of conflict have taken their toll: the majority of China now expects a war with Japan at some point in the future. A survey carried out by Genron with China Daily, a state-sponsored newspaper, has revealed the attitudes of the two countries' citizens to each other. [...]
France to miss budget deficit target

September 10, 2014

France has admitted that it is not going to make its budget deficit target until 2017. The target set by the EU is for all nations to reign in their budget deficit (the amount the government has to borrow annually) to three per cent of GDP Now Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, has indicated that 2017 [...]
Bad education? 14pc of English adults are now less educated than their parents

September 10, 2014

Fourteen per cent of English adults aged 25-64 are less educated than their parents, according to a new study. The report explored educational mobility – or the likelihood people of a given generation achieve a higher level of education than their parents. The figures, by the OECD, showed educational mobility had slowed in the developed world, including [...]

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