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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What you need to know before the open – 09/01

January 9, 2014

It's all eyes on the European Central Bank for bourses today, as it announces its decision on interest rates. There's been plenty of speculation over whether we'll see another rate cut, given rising concerns over deflation in the euro area, but consensus is that today's meeting is likely to be too soon for a decision. [...]
M&S Christmas trading blighted as clothes sales continue to fall

January 9, 2014

No belated Christmas cheer for Marks and Spencer – the group's just reported that like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to 28 December were down 2.1 per cent. The quarter, it said this morning, was a challenging one, and performance was below expectations. Sales in general merchandise, which includes clothes, fell for the tenth quarter [...]
STJ Advisors sees profits fall

January 8, 2014

Specialist equity capital market adviser STJ Advisors has just reported a drop in profits from £2.9m to £2.3m in the year to the end of March 2013, according to documents filed at Companies House. The niche firm, which advised the Royal Mail Group during the initial stages of its privatisation last year, also witnessed a [...]
China’s going to double its oil and gas output by 2030

January 8, 2014

China, the world's biggest energy consumer, is set to more than double crude oil and gas output over the next sixteen years, according to its Ministry of Land and Resources. The ministry predicted today that output may reach 700m tonnes of oil equivalent by 2030, saying the assessment came from a recent resources evaluation. That [...]
US private sector jobs growth highest since November 2012

January 8, 2014

238,000 more people in the US were employed in December than November, according to data released by Automatic Data Processing (ADP). The impressive increase in jobs created in the private sector came in above expectations of 200,000 and is the highest in 13 months. It follows November's rise of 229,000 – which was revised [...]
The dark side of Britain’s recovery

January 8, 2014

Growth is back, the housing market is booming and shoppers are ever more confident – but that shopping spurt is not all good. It might seem a relief after years of recession and stagnation, but there are reasons to be worried about the foundations of the new boom. Official data out today shows the recovery [...]
Nintendo shares surge as China opens its doors

January 8, 2014

Nintendo’s investors were jubilant last night on the news that China would lift its sales ban on foreign video games, causing the struggling consumer electronics company’s share price to rise 10.7 per cent. Shares closed at 15,850 yen (£92.1) after news that China’s State Council would allow foreign-made video games consoles into the country’s 83bn [...]
Here’s the graph that shows UK women are working harder than men

January 8, 2014

(ONS) According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in the third quarter of 2013 people in the UK were working more than they have been for the past few years. Over the past 20 years, we've worked fewer hours overall. But comparing the third quarters of 2009 to 2013, average hours worked [...]
No change for Eurozone unemployment

January 8, 2014

(eurostat) Eurozone unemployment remained unchanged in November at 12.1 per cent. The fall to 12.1 per cent in October marked the first decline since February 2011. Around 19m people are currently unemployed in the euro area. Unemployment was highest in Greece, where is was 27.4 per cent in September, with Spain seeing 26.7 per cent. [...]
Bank of England says Help to Buy is driving mortgage availability increase

January 8, 2014

Some more data to buttress evidence of a rapidly picking up housing market, this time from the Bank of England. The Bank's credit conditions survey showed demand for house purchase loans and mortgages went up in the fourth quarter of 2013, with mortgage demand at its highest level since 2007. Along with secured lending to [...]

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