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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Waitrose checks out 22,000 items a minute on busiest day ever

January 8, 2014

Waitrose saw its most successful Christmas on record, with sales for the twelve trading days up to 31 December up 6.5 per cent on the same period of 2012. In the five weeks to Christmas Eve, total sales (excluding fuel) rose 5.4 per cent from a year earlier. The store added that on the 23 [...]
Housebuilders Persimmon and Galliford Try see sales surge

January 8, 2014

Some more evidence this morning of a housing market that's gathering momentum. UK house builder Persimmon said it had a "strong finish" to 2013, with the volume of new home sales up 16 per cent over the year to 11,528. In a trading update, the firm said it legally completed 6,506 new homes in the [...]
What you need to know before the open – 08/01

January 8, 2014

European markets are set to open flat this morning, as US employment data and Fed Open Market Committee meeting minutes are due out later today. European opening may be reflective after rudderless rally yesterday – FTSE -2, DAX -14, CAC -4 — David Buik (@truemagic68) January 8, 2014 Strong US data yesterday gave [...]
Sainsbury’s sees “strong” Christmas sales

January 8, 2014

Sainsbury's has proved expectations that it'd break its lengthy sales increase record wrong – just. The supermarket has announced like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, rose by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter, and said it saw "strong" sales in the run-up to Christmas. This marks Sainsbury's 36th quarter in a row of like-for-like growth. Chief [...]
Boris and his ‘Nick’ names

January 7, 2014

Nick Clegg got an unfortunate 47th birthday present from Boris Johnson yesterday when the mayor implied that the deputy PM was little more than David Cameron’s condom. Employing his usual linguistic flair, the London mayor called Clegg a, “lapdog-cum-prophylactic protection device" on LBC radio. He prefixed it with, “I don’t want to get into some [...]
Is narrowing US trade deficit all good news?

January 7, 2014

The US trade deficit shrank unexpectedly in November, falling to a four-year low of $34.3bn from $39.3bn. This, says Capital Economics' Paul Ashworth, suggests that fourth-quarter GDP growth could turn out to be above three per cent annualised. Exports saw an increase of 0.9 per cent, with imports falling 1.4 per cent. Around two-thirds of [...]
Intel says no to conflict minerals in chips

January 7, 2014

Intel's announced something of a milestone when it comes to its manufacturing: from this year, it's making and shipping "conflict-free" microprocessors. The chip maker has made a "rigorous effort" to ensure its sources of specific metals – tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold – aren't funding human rights abuses, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [...]
Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft to re-enter China’s £8.4bn gaming market

January 7, 2014

China has ended its 14 year ban on foreign-made games consoles which has blocked Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo from selling devices to the country’s 1.3bn citizens. While PlayStations and Xboxes have long been available in China illegally, PC gaming is the only legitimate form of gaming and has flourished due to the popularity of online [...]
Eurozone inflation slows to 0.8pc in December

January 7, 2014

Inflation in the Eurozone was down to 0.8 per cent in December from a year earlier, below expectations of 0.9 per cent. Core prices came in at 0.7 per cent year-on-year, the lowest on record. The flash estimate comes ahead of the European Central Bank's meeting on Thursday, which has a target of two per [...]
Bumper UK car sales at pre-crisis levels

January 7, 2014

The end of 2013 marked a stellar year for the car industry, as car sales jumped 23.8 per cent year-on-year in December. Growing consumer confidence and cheap credit saw 2013's car sales zoom to pre-recession levels, recording the best performance in five years, after 22 successive increases. Car registrations hit 2.26m last year, up 10.8 [...]

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