By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

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Why more young people than ever are living with their parents

January 21, 2014

(ONS) Over a quarter of British adults between the ages of 20 and 34 were living with their parents last year – that’s 3.3m people and the biggest increase since the crisis, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Increasing living costs and job pressures carry on preventing people from moving out. [...]
Markets buzz on Chinese liquidity shot

January 21, 2014

Yesterday, Chinese GDP numbers showed that economic growth slowed in 2013 from 7.8 per cent to 7.7 per cent. In response, the Chinese government last night administered a short-term liquidity injection to commercial banks, showing its willingness to act in the face of dwindling growth. Market strategist Ishaq Siddiqi of ETX Capital comments that markets [...]
Pictures: Petra Diamonds unearths “exceptional” 29.6 carat blue diamond

January 21, 2014

Miner Petra Diamonds has announced this morning that it’s recovered one of those most highly coveted kinds of diamonds – a blue diamond. The precious stone is 29.6 carats, and was found at its Cullinan mine in South Africa. The company says the stone is "one of the most exceptional" it’s ever recovered at the mine, [...]
Unilever dogged by currency headwinds and competitive markets

January 21, 2014

"Good progress in tough markets" is the phrase Unilever has chosen to describe its performance in 2013. The Anglo-Dutch products giant said its determined to improve by “driving out complexity and cost”. In its full year results for 2013, Unilever reported underlying sales growth of 4.3 per cent (4.1 per cent in the fourth quarter) [...]
What you need to know before the open – 21/01

January 21, 2014

With German and European ZEW surveys for January out this morning, Europe is set to open up. A positive number will most likely push markets higher. The International Monetary Fund is expected to revise up its growth forecasts for the UK. #FTSE100 called +20pts at 6855 as 2014 optimism gets fillip from PBOC interventing to [...]
Any Other Business – 21/01

January 20, 2014

THERE’S been a lot of talk recently about millionaires creating elaborate basements but it seems Alton Towers owner Nick Leslau is going against the grain and spending his moolah on his roof. The millionaire plans to renovate the roof of his penthouse apartment near Regent’s Park into a 2,500 square foot garden, replete with a [...]
Fat Face moves closer to stock market debut

January 20, 2014

Clothes shop Fat Face is ratcheting up its plans to seek a listing on the London Stock Exchange, and has brought in a slew of bankers to advise on a possible flotation. Bridgepoint, the private equity group that owns Fat Face, hired financial advisory group Lazard in December to assess options. And after strong Christmas [...]
Bitcoin faces latest regulation barrage – this time it’s from Finland

January 20, 2014

Today has brought another state-led assault on Bitcoin – Finland, like neighbour Norway, has deemed the virtual currency a commodity, rather than a currency. Finland’s central bank has said that Bitcoin doesn’t even meet the definition of an electronic payment method. Speaking to Bloomberg, Paeivi Heikkinen, head of oversight at the Bank of Finland in [...]
Mothercare jumps on Tesco takeover talk

January 20, 2014

Talk of renewed interest from Tesco in languishing Mothercare have seen stocks in the baby care and clothes retailer jump over five per cent. Reports that the supermarket has rekindled its interest in launching a takeover bid follow an announcement by Mothercare earlier this month that its full-year profits would be half what analysts were [...]
Two steps forward for Iranian nuclear deal

January 20, 2014

In November, an historic deal between Iran and the US, Russia, China and European powers was struck. Today, two significant things regarding the deal are happening. Part of the agreement was that Iran begin curbing its uranium enrichment. That curbing has started today, according to state TV. And today is also the day the UN [...]

Greene King to put 150 pubs on chopping block

Chelsea punishment ‘extremely lenient’, says club’s former exec Purslow

Bar of the week: Flipdog, the Shoreditch spot stoking its cocktails with a hot poker

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