El Financiero

El Financiero is listed as Center on Crosswire: like most business and financial dailies it is read across the political spectrum, with an editorial line defined more by markets than by party politics. In Mexico, La Jornada is listed as Left-leaning, while Reforma is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Financiero beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read El Financiero beside another title from Mexico and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Business dailies rank stories by market consequence rather than political salience, so El Financiero will often lead on something the general press buries — and describe the same policy in the language of cost and risk rather than fairness. Because El Financiero is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Mexico either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

El Financiero was founded in 1981, is published from Mexico City and is owned by Grupo Lauman. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Mexico and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, Mexico ranks fourth of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.

Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 5 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to El Financiero outside Mexico, starting with Mexico and Central America, are La República (Costa Rica), Bloomberg (United States), Ámbito (Argentina) and Gestión (Peru). Opening one of them beside El Financiero is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.