Les Echos

Les Echos is France's leading financial and economic daily newspaper, based in Paris. It focuses on business, markets, finance, and economic policy, serving a professional and investor audience. Its economic coverage is generally pro-market in orientation. The publication combines its print edition with a widely used website covering French and international business affairs.

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Les Echos at a glance

Country: France
Region: Western Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Business daily
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1908
Owner: LVMH
Published from: Paris
Website: lesechos.fr ↗
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How Crosswire groups Les Echos

Crosswire groups Les Echos as Centrist for comparisons within France'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 France, Libération and Mediapart are listed as Left-leaning, while Le Figaro and Le Point are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Les Echos beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Les Echos sits in France's press

Les Echos was founded in 1908, is published from Paris and is owned by LVMH. It is one of 11 outlets tracked in France and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, France ranks third 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 Les Echos outside France, starting with Western Europe, are Dagens Industri (Sweden), Kauppalehti (Finland), Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy) and Expansión (Spain). Opening one of them beside Les Echos is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.