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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In graphs: London house prices no longer the fastest growing in the UK

July 28, 2014

The Land Registry has released new data on house prices in England and Wales and the figures show the market is cooling. The average across England and Wales shows that prices are stagnant – showing no change at all. The average selling price for a house in England and Wales during June was £172,011: a zero per [...]
Russia forced to pay $50bn to Yukos shareholders for expropriating oil assets

July 28, 2014

As Putin's international image slips to a new nadir over Ukraine, Russia has been ordered by the Hague's arbitration court to repay $50bn to shareholders in defunct oil company Yukos. The Russian state had expropriated the assets of Yukos, forcing the company into bankruptcy. A $50bn hit will come as a large blow to the former-soviet [...]
Ryanair share price rises after full-year profit expectations revised

July 28, 2014

There is the cliche of blue skies ahead for Ryanair, after the budget airline raised the upper limit of its profit expectations to €650m from €620m. Shares climbed on the news and were up 4.6 per cent at pixel time. The revision comes, Ryanair said, because of expectations that full-year traffic will rise by 5 [...]
Amazon shares slide as markets take a dim view of second-quarter loss

July 25, 2014

Amazon shares have folded faster than high-street bookstores today after the Nasdaq showed what it thought of the world's largest online retailer posting a loss for the second quarter and falling some way short of market expectations. Shares had slumped by 11.36 per cent at pixel time with earlier losses as high as twelve per cent. That [...]
How much pocket money do children get? Not a lot if they live in East Anglia

July 25, 2014

As employment data has been showing, real wages are yet to catch up with inflation or regain their pre-crisis levels. That effect is just as pronounced for children too it seems, as pocket money has failed to regain any of its pre-Lehman lustre. What is more, in many regions children are receiving less this year [...]
London house prices: Growth slumps

July 25, 2014

The boom might be ending: London House Prices have stagnated in July, recording their first almost growth-free month since December 2012. According to data from Hometrack – which is a survey rather than indexed data – prices in the capital were unchanged at zero per cent for July, down from 0.5 per cent in June and 0.6 per cent [...]
McDonald’s pulls the plug on chicken nuggets in Hong Kong

July 25, 2014

McDonald's has had to withdraw thousands of chicken nuggets from sale in Hong Kong after revealing it had been using ingredients from a supplier at the epicentre of a Chinese food-hygiene scare. Shanghai Husi Food has been embroiled in the scandal since last Sunday when a television programme containing footage of employees using out-of-date meat and re-adding [...]
Blackmailers steal personal data from ECB

July 24, 2014

HACKERS stole sensitive personal information from the European Central Bank’s (ECB) website this week, the institution said yesterday. Email addresses and contact data were stolen in the attack. The ECB received an anonymous call on Monday night requesting money in return for the stolen data. The bank did not disclose how much the blackmailer asked [...]
Leaner Nokia sees share price rise as it beats market expectations

July 24, 2014

Nokia has surprised the market by posting better than expected second quarter results, just days after announcing half of its staff would lose their jobs. The Finnish company was recently bought by Microsoft, who announced plans to cut half of the staff from Nokia's mobile phone division. Investors were impressed by a leaner operation, shown by [...]
Ex-Banco Espirito Santo boss Ricardo Salgado arrested on charges of money laundering and tax evasion

July 24, 2014

The ex-boss of troubled Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo has been arrested on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. 70-year-old Ricardo Salgado ran the bank for 23 years before resigning after accounting irregularities were discovered at the bank's parent company. The bank was family-run until the irregularities surfaced, but as confidence in the bank [...]

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