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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The UK should “not be frightened” of leaving the EU – Boris Johnson

August 3, 2014

The UK must be prepared to leave the EU – this is the message Boris Johnson will give to David Cameron this week. The Mayor of London believes that the UK should "not be frightened" of the prospect of leaving the trading bloc and that financial conditions would be better outside the union. The Mayor [...]
US economy adds only 209,000 jobs, unemployment rate rises to 6.2pc

August 1, 2014

After last month's 288,000-job bonanza, the US economy has only managed to add 209,000 jobs in July. The headline unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 6.2 per cent after analysts had predicted it would remain on 6.1. It looked difficult for the labour market to top June's high figures, which meant the year to June [...]
Scottish independence could have “material adverse effect” on RBS, says bank

August 1, 2014

RBS has reiterated that a vote for Scottish independence would negatively impact its business. Although the initial comments were in a statement in April, the bank today said in its half-yearly report that a yes vote could change the "fiscal, monetary, legal and regulatory landscape to which the group is subject". It also mentioned the prospect [...]
RBS share price starts down despite first-half profit increase of 93 per cent

August 1, 2014

The Royal Bank of Scotland shrugged off PPI write downs to record a huge jump in profit before tax. The figures will come as no real surprise as RBS gave accurate guidance on its first-half expectations a week ago and saw its share price rocket as a result. This explains why the markets have not [...]
London house prices up 25.8 per cent in a year: How do other UK regions compare?

July 31, 2014

Yet another report, this time from Nationwide, has shown that London house prices have soared in the last twelve months. Growth is slowing, however, and the latest figures show that the average house price in the UK rose by just 0.1 per cent, below expectations of a 0.5 per cent increase and lower than the [...]
Lloyds share price drops after bank pays £600m over PPI

July 31, 2014

Lloyds Banking Group saw its shares drop on Thursday after revealing it had set aside £600m for payments over the PPI mis-selling scandal. Shares in Lloyds were down 2.9 per cent at pixel time. The £600m formed part of legacy conduct payments of £1.3bn that severely affected the bank's pre-tax profits in the first half [...]
In graphs: UK house prices rise just 0.1 per cent in July

July 31, 2014

First it was the Land Registry telling us and now it's Nationwide: the upward spiral of house prices is coming to an end, at least for now. The latest figures from Nationwide show that the average house price in the UK rose by just 0.1 per cent, below expectations of a 0.5 per cent increase [...]
Banco Espirito Santo’s share price plummets after €3.6bn loss

July 31, 2014

It isn't getting any better for Banco Espirito Santo. With former owners arrested and doubts remaining about the ability of the bank's parent company to support Espirito's debts, shares have taken something of a buffeting in the last month. Today it all got worse as the market's reacted with fury to news that Espirito Santo [...]
Argentina defaults after failing to reach agreement by debt deadline

July 31, 2014

Argentina has defaulted on its debt after failing to reach an agreement with creditors by midnight in New York. The default is the second in the last 13 years for the South American country and comes after a protracted wrangle with much mud slinging and little face-to-face negotiation. In what has become the Argentine rhetoric, [...]
US economy bounces back as GDP rises by four per cent

July 30, 2014

It doesn't come much bigger than this for the land of hope and glory: a bond-buying announcement, an interest rate announcement and GDP for quarter two come all in one day for the US – and that day is today. GDP for the second quarter came in at four per cent, above the three per [...]

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