Financial Times

The Financial Times is a British international business and financial daily newspaper based in London, recognisable for its salmon-pink pages. It provides global coverage of economics, markets, companies, and politics for a professional and investor audience. Read worldwide, it operates a major subscription website alongside its print edition and is considered a leading business publication.

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Financial Times at a glance

Country: United Kingdom
Region: Northern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Business daily
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1888
Owner: Nikkei
Published from: London
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How Crosswire groups Financial Times

Crosswire groups Financial Times as Centrist for comparisons within the United Kingdom's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In the United Kingdom, The Guardian is listed as Left-leaning, while Daily Mail and The Sun are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Financial Times beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Financial Times sits in the United Kingdom's press

Financial Times was founded in 1888, is published from London and is owned by Nikkei. It is one of 9 outlets tracked in the United Kingdom and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, the United Kingdom ranks fifth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Financial Times outside the United Kingdom, starting with Northern Europe, are Handelsblatt (Germany), Les Echos (France), Financieele Dagblad (Netherlands) and L'Echo (Belgium). Opening one of them beside Financial Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.