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Financial Times Cover of the 22 February 2021 issue Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet (345mm x 560mm) Digital Owner(s) The Financial Times Ltd. (Nikkei Inc.) Founder James Sheridan Editor Roula Khalaf Deputy editor Patrick Jenkins Founded 9 January 1888; 138 years ago (1888-01-09) Political alignment Liberalism[1] Conservative liberalism[2] Centre[3] to centre-right[4] Language English Headquarters Bracken House London, England Circulation 104,971 (as of September 2025)[5] Sister newspapers Nikkei Asia ISSN 0307-1766 OCLC number 60638918 Website www.ft.com

The ***Financial Times*** (***FT***) is a [British](/source/United_Kingdom) daily [newspaper](/source/Newspaper) printed in [broadsheet](/source/Broadsheet) and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic [current affairs](/source/Current_affairs_(news_format)). Based in London, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, [Nikkei](/source/Nikkei%2C_Inc.), with core editorial offices across Britain, the United States and continental Europe. In July 2015, [Pearson](/source/Pearson_plc) sold the publication to Nikkei for [£](/source/Pound_sterling)844 million ([US$](/source/US%24)1.32 billion) after owning it since 1957. In 2019, it reported one million paying subscriptions, three-quarters of which were digital subscriptions.[6][7] In 2023, it was reported to have 1.3 million subscribers of which 1.2 million were digital.[8] The primary focus is on [financial journalism](/source/Business_journalism) and economic analysis rather than [generalist reporting](/source/News_media). The paper sponsors an [annual book award](/source/Financial_Times_and_McKinsey_Business_Book_of_the_Year_Award) and publishes a "[Person of the Year](/source/Financial_Times_Person_of_the_Year)" feature.

The paper was founded in January 1888 as the ***London Financial Guide*** and rebranded a month later as the *Financial Times*. It was first circulated around [metropolitan London](/source/London_metropolitan_area) by [James Sheridan](#History), who, along with his brother and [Horatio Bottomley](/source/Horatio_Bottomley), sought to report on city business opposite the *[Financial News](/source/Financial_News_(1884%E2%80%931945))*. The succeeding half-century of competition between the two papers eventually culminated in a [1945 merger](/source/Financial_News_(1884%E2%80%931945)#History), led by [Brendan Bracken](/source/Brendan_Bracken), which established it as [one of the largest business newspapers](/source/List_of_business_newspapers#Top_circulation) in the world.

Globalisation from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries facilitated editorial expansion for the *FT*, with the paper adding opinion columns, special reports, [political cartoons](/source/Political_cartoon), [readers' letters](/source/Readers'_letters), book reviews, technology articles and global politics features. The paper is often characterised by its light-orange (salmon) [newsprint](/source/Newsprint). It is supplemented by its lifestyle magazine (*[FT Magazine](/source/FT_Magazine)*), weekend edition (*[FT Weekend](#FT_Weekend)*) and some industry publications.

The [editorial stance of the *Financial Times*](#Editorial_stance) centres on [economic liberalism](/source/Economic_liberalism), particularly advocacy of [free trade](/source/Free_trade) and [free markets](/source/Free_market). Since its founding, it has supported [liberal democracy](/source/Liberal_democracy), favouring [classically liberal](/source/Classical_liberalism) politics and policies from international governments; its newsroom is independent from its editorial board, and it is considered a [newspaper of record](/source/Newspaper_of_record). Due to its history of economic commentary, the *FT* publishes a [variety of financial indices](#Indices), primarily the [FTSE All-Share Index](/source/FTSE_All-Share_Index). Since the late 20th century, its typical depth of coverage has linked the paper with a [white-collar](/source/White-collar_worker), educated, and financially literate readership.[9][10] Because of this tendency, the *FT* has traditionally been regarded as a [centrist](/source/Centrism)[11] to [centre-right](/source/Centre-right_politics)[12] [liberal](/source/Liberalism),[13] [neo-liberal](/source/Neoliberalism),[14] and [conservative-liberal](/source/Conservative_liberalism)[2] newspaper. The *Financial Times* is headquartered in [Bracken House](/source/Bracken_House%2C_London) at 1 Friday Street, near the city's financial centre, where it maintains its [publishing](/source/Publishing) house, corporate centre, and main editorial office.

## History

The front page of the *Financial Times* on 13 February 1888

### Origins

The *FT* was launched as the *London Financial Guide* on 10 January 1888, renaming itself the *Financial Times* on 13 February the same year. Describing itself as the friend of "The Honest Financier, the Bona Fide Investor, the Respectable Broker, the Genuine Director, and the Legitimate Speculator", it was a four-page journal. The readership was the financial community of the [City of London](/source/City_of_London), its only rival being the more daring and slightly older (founded in 1884) *[Financial News](/source/Financial_News_(1884%E2%80%931945))*. On 2 January 1893 the *FT* began printing on light pink paper to distinguish it from the similarly named *Financial News*.[15] The pink tint came from the pink color of the [China clay](/source/China_clay) they began sourcing from the [Bodelva](/source/Bodelva) [clay pit](/source/Clay_pit) near [St Austell](/source/St_Austell), [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall),[16] and at the time, it was cheaper not to bleach the paper (several other more general newspapers, such as *[The Sporting Times](/source/The_Sporting_Times)*, had the same policy), but nowadays it is more expensive as the paper has to be dyed specially.[15]

### Purchase by the Berry brothers

The Berry brothers, [Lord Camrose](/source/William_Berry%2C_1st_Viscount_Camrose) and [Gomer Berry](/source/Gomer_Berry%2C_1st_Viscount_Kemsley) (later Lord Kemsley), purchased the *Financial Times* in 1919.[17]

### Purchase by Brendan Bracken; merger with the *Financial News*

In 1945, [Brendan Bracken](/source/Brendan_Bracken) purchased the *Financial Times* from Lord Camrose,[17] and, following 57 years of rivalry, merged it with the *Financial News* to form a single six-page newspaper. The *Financial Times* had a higher circulation, while the *Financial News* provided much of the editorial talent. The *Lex* column was also introduced from *Financial News*.[18] With this purchase and merger, Bracken is credited as being "the effective founding father of the modern *Financial Times*, Britain’s highest quality daily newspaper."[19]

### Gordon Newton and "direct recruitment"

[Gordon Newton](/source/Gordon_Newton), a Cambridge graduate, took over as editor in 1949, and immediately introduced a policy (then most unusual in [Fleet Street](/source/Fleet_Street)) of direct recruitment of new university graduates, mainly from Oxbridge, as its trainee journalists. Many of them proceeded to have distinguished careers elsewhere in journalism and British public life and became the mainstay of the paper's own editorial strengths until the 1990s. The first such 'direct recruit' was future leading British economist Andrew Shonfield; the second was (later Sir) William Rees-Mogg who went on, via *[The Sunday Times](/source/The_Sunday_Times)*, to edit *[The Times](/source/The_Times)* in 1967 following its acquisition by [Roy Thomson](/source/Roy_Thomson%2C_1st_Baron_Thomson_of_Fleet). Other *FT* Oxbridge recruits included the future [Chancellor of the Exchequer](/source/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer) [Nigel Lawson](/source/Nigel_Lawson). The *FT*'s distinctive recruitment policy for Fleet Street journalists was never popular with the [National Union of Journalists](/source/National_Union_of_Journalists) and ceased in 1966 following the recruitment of Richard Lambert from Oxford, himself a future Editor of the *FT*.

### Purchase by Pearson and growth into a global newspaper

Meanwhile, [Pearson](/source/Pearson_plc) had bought the paper in 1957.[20] Over the years, the paper grew in size, readership, and breadth of coverage. It established correspondents in cities around the world, reflecting a renewed impetus in the [world economy](/source/World_economy) towards [globalisation](/source/Globalisation). As cross-border trade and capital flows increased during the 1970s, the *FT* began international expansion, facilitated by developments in technology and the growing acceptance of English as the international language of business. On 1 January 1979 the first *FT* (Continental Europe edition) was printed outside the UK, in Frankfurt; printing in the US began in July 1985.[21]

Since then, with increased international coverage, the *FT* has become a global newspaper, printed in 22 locations with five international editions to serve the UK, continental Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East.[22]

The European edition is distributed throughout continental Europe and Africa. It is printed Monday to Saturday at five centres across Europe, reporting on matters concerning the European Union, the [euro](/source/Euro) and European corporate affairs.[23] In 1994 *FT* launched a luxury lifestyle magazine, *How To Spend It*. In 2009 it launched a standalone website for the magazine.[24]

### FT.com

The former London offices of the *Financial Times* at [One Southwark Bridge](/source/Southwark_Bridge_Road)

On 13 May 1995 the *Financial Times* group made its first foray into the online world with the launch of FT.com. This provided a summary of news from around the globe, which was supplemented in February 1996 with stock price coverage. The second-generation site was launched in spring 1996. The site was funded by advertising and contributed to the online advertising market in the UK in the late 1990s. Between 1997 and 2000, the site underwent several revamps and changes of strategy, as the FT Group and Pearson reacted to the changes online. *FT* introduced subscription services in 2002.[25] *FT.com* is one of the few UK news sites successfully funded by individual subscription.

In 1997, the *FT* launched a US edition, printed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Orlando and Washington, D.C., although the newspaper was first printed outside New York City in 1985. In September 1998 the *FT* became the first UK-based newspaper to sell more copies internationally than within the UK. In 2000 the *Financial Times* started publishing a German-language edition, *[Financial Times Deutschland](/source/Financial_Times_Deutschland)*, with a news and editorial team based in Hamburg. Its initial circulation in 2003 was 90,000. It was originally a joint venture with a German publishing firm, [Gruner + Jahr](/source/Gruner_%2B_Jahr). In January 2008 the *FT* sold its 50% stake to its German partner.[26] *FT Deutschland* never made a profit and is said to have accumulated losses of €250 million over 12 years. It closed on 7 December 2012.[27][28] The *Financial Times* launched a new weekly supplement for the fund management industry on 4 February 2002. *FT fund management* (FTfm) was and still is distributed with the paper every Monday. FTfm is the world's largest-circulation fund management title.[29] Since 2005 the *FT* has sponsored the annual [*Financial Times* Business Book of the Year Award](/source/Financial_Times_Business_Book_of_the_Year_Award).[30]

### "Refreshed" *FT*

On 23 April 2007, the *FT* unveiled a "refreshed" version of the newspaper and introduced a new slogan, "We Live in Financial Times".[31] In 2007 the *FT* pioneered a [metered paywall](/source/Metered_paywall), which let visitors to its website read a limited number of free articles during any one month before asking them to pay.[32] Four years later the *FT* launched its [HTML5](/source/HTML5) mobile internet app. Smartphones and tablets now drive 12% of subscriptions and 19% of traffic to FT.com.[33] In 2012, the number of digital subscribers surpassed the circulation of the newspaper for the first time and the *FT* drew almost half of its revenue from subscriptions rather than advertising.[34][35]

The *FT* has been available on [Bloomberg Terminal](/source/Bloomberg_Terminal) since 2010[36] and on the [Wisers](/source/Wiser.org) platform since 2013.[37] From 2015, instead of the metered paywall on the website, visitors were given unlimited free access for one month, after which they needed to subscribe.[7][38] Pearson sold the Financial Times Group to [Nikkei, Inc.](/source/Nikkei%2C_Inc.) for [£](/source/Pound_sterling)844 million ([US$](/source/US%24)1.32 billion) in July 2015.[39][40][41]

In 2016, the *Financial Times* acquired a controlling stake in Alpha Grid, a London-based media company specialising in the development and production of quality branded content across a range of channels, including broadcast, video, digital, social and events.[42] In 2018, the *Financial Times* acquired a controlling stake in [Longitude](/source/Longitude_Research), a specialist provider of [thought leadership](/source/Thought_leadership) and research services to a multinational corporate and institutional client base.[43] In January 2022, the FT completed the full acquisition of Longitude, buying out the remaining shares from co-founders Rob Mitchell, James Watson and Gareth Lofthouse. This investment built on the *Financial Times*' recent growth in several business areas, including conferences and events through *FT Live* and extends the *FT*'s traditional commercial offering into a wider set of integrated services.

In 2020, reporter Mark Di Stefano resigned from the *Financial Times* after hacking into [Zoom](/source/Zoom_(software)) calls at other media organisations including *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)* and the *[Evening Standard](/source/Evening_Standard)*.[44] In 2020, the retraction of an opinion piece by a reporter for the *Financial Times* generated a controversy about the editorial independence of the paper from outside political pressure. The controversy followed the withdrawal by the newspaper's editor of an opinion piece by *FT*'s Brussels correspondent Mehreen Khan that was critical of French President [Emmanuel Macron](/source/Emmanuel_Macron)'s policy towards Muslim minorities in France. The piece was withdrawn from the *FT* website on the same day as its publication.[45] President Macron subsequently published a letter in the *FT* directly responding to the arguments of the original opinion piece, even though the original opinion piece was no longer available on the website of the newspaper.[46] The editor of the *FT*, [Roula Khalaf](/source/Roula_Khalaf), who took the decision to withdraw the initial article, acknowledged having been contacted by the [Élysée Palace](/source/%C3%89lys%C3%A9e_Palace) regarding the article, and defended her decision on the basis purely of several factual errors in the original piece by Mehreen Khan.[47]

### Wirecard exposé

Main article: [Wirecard scandal](/source/Wirecard_scandal)

In January 2019, the *FT* began a series of [investigative articles](/source/Investigative_journalism) detailing fraud suspicions at German payments group [Wirecard](/source/Wirecard). When the Wirecard share price plunged, German news media speculated that [market manipulation](/source/Market_manipulation) was behind this attack on a German corporate, focusing on the lead author of the *FT* series, [Dan McCrum](/source/Dan_McCrum). The public prosecutor's office in [Munich](/source/Munich) subsequently launched an investigation.[48] After the formal complaint of an investor, Wirecard and the German [Federal Financial Supervisory Authority](/source/Federal_Financial_Supervisory_Authority) (BaFin), the responsible state's attorney announced investigations into several *FT* journalists.[49]

On 22 June 2020 and after 18 months of investigations and an external audit, Wirecard announced that €1.9 billion worth of cash reported in its accounts "may not exist". The company subsequently filed for [insolvency](/source/Insolvency).[50] BaFin itself became subject of a [European Securities and Markets Authority](/source/European_Securities_and_Markets_Authority) investigation for its response to the scandal.[51]

### Fossil fuel advertising

An investigation by *[The Intercept](/source/The_Intercept)*, *[The Nation](/source/The_Nation)*, and [DeSmog](/source/DeSmog) found that *FT* is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the [fossil fuel](/source/Fossil_fuel) industry.[52] Journalists who cover [climate change](/source/Climate_change) for *FT* are concerned that [conflicts of interest](/source/Conflicts_of_interest) with the companies and industries that [caused climate change](/source/Causes_of_climate_change) and [obstructed action](/source/Climate_change_denial) will reduce the credibility of their reporting on climate change and cause readers to downplay the [climate crisis](/source/Climate_crisis).[52]

## Audience

According to the Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits among most senior financial decision makers in the world's largest financial institutions, the *Financial Times* is considered the most important business read, reaching 36% of the sample population, 11% more than *[The Wall Street Journal](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal)* (*WSJ*), its main rival. *[The Economist](/source/The_Economist)*, which was once 50% owned by *FT*, reaches 32%. *FT*'s *[The Banker](/source/The_Banker)* also proved vital reading, reaching 24%.[53] In addition, in 2010 the *FT* was regarded as the most credible publication in reporting financial and economic issues among the Worldwide Professional Investment Community audience. *The Economist* was rated the third-most-credible title by most influential professional investors, while the *WSJ* was second.[54]

In 2022, the *FT* launched FT Edit, a low-price app aimed at attracting a younger audience.[55]

## Content

The *FT* is split into two sections. The first section covers domestic and international news, editorial commentary on politics and economics from *FT* journalists such as [Martin Wolf](/source/Martin_Wolf), [Gillian Tett](/source/Gillian_Tett) and [Edward Luce](/source/Edward_Luce), and opinion pieces from globally renowned leaders, policymakers, academics and commentators.

The second section consists of financial data and news about companies and markets. Despite being generally regarded as primarily a financial newspaper, it does also contain TV listings, weather and other more informal articles. In 2021 and 2022, the outlet began focusing more on the cryptocurrency industry, launching a Digital Assets Dashboard, publishing multi-asset crypto indexes, starting a Cryptofinance newsletter dedicated to digital assets, and recruiting more journalists to cover the sector.[56][57] About 110 of its 475 journalists are outside the United Kingdom.

### The *Lex* column

The *Lex* column is a daily feature on the back page of the first section. It features analyses and opinions covering global economics and finance. The *FT* calls *Lex* its agenda-setting column. The column first appeared on Monday, 1 October 1945. The name may originally have stood for *Lex Mercatoria*, a Latin expression meaning literally "merchant law". It was conceived by [Hargreaves Parkinson](/source/Hargreaves_Parkinson) for the *Financial News* in the 1930s, and moved to the *Financial Times* when the two merged.

*Lex* boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government—including [Nigel Lawson](/source/Nigel_Lawson) (former Conservative [Chancellor of the Exchequer](/source/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer)), [Richard Lambert](/source/Richard_Lambert) ([CBI](/source/Confederation_of_British_Industry) director and former member of the [Bank of England](/source/Bank_of_England)'s monetary policy committee), Martin Taylor (former chief executive of [Barclays](/source/Barclays)), John Makinson (chairman and chief executive of [Penguin](/source/Penguin_Random_House)), John Gardiner (former chairman of [Tesco](/source/Tesco)), [David Freud](/source/David_Freud) (former [UBS](/source/UBS) banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer), John Kingman (former head of [UKFI](/source/UKFI) and a banker at [Rothschild's](/source/Rothschild_%26_Co)), George Graham ([RBS](/source/Royal_Bank_of_Scotland) banker), [Andrew Balls](/source/Andrew_Balls) (head of European portfolio management at [PIMCO](/source/PIMCO)) and [Jo Johnson](/source/Jo_Johnson) (former Conservative Member of Parliament [for Orpington](/source/Orpington_(UK_Parliament_constituency))).[58]

## *FT Weekend*

The *FT* publishes a Saturday edition of the newspaper titled the *Financial Times Weekend*. It consists of international economic and political news, *Companies & Markets*, *Life & Arts*, *House & Home* and *[FT Magazine](/source/FT_Magazine)*.

### *HTSI*

*HTSI* (originally *How to Spend It*) is a weekly magazine published with *FT Weekend*. Founded and launched by Julia Carrick[59] with Lucia van der Post as founding editor,[60] its articles concern [luxury goods](/source/Luxury_good) such as [yachts](/source/Yacht), [mansions](/source/Mansion), [apartments](/source/Apartment), [horlogerie](/source/Horlogerie), [haute couture](/source/Haute_couture) and [automobiles](/source/Automobiles), as well as fashion and columns by individuals in the arts, gardening, food, and hotel and travel industries. *How to Spend It* started in 1967 as a one-page consumer goods feature in the newspaper, which was edited by Sheila Black, the *FT*'s first female journalist, a former actress.[61] To celebrate its 15th anniversary, *FT* launched the online version of this publication on 3 October 2009.[60]

Some media commentators were taken aback by the online launch of a website supporting [conspicuous consumption](/source/Conspicuous_consumption) during the financial [austerity](/source/Austerity) of the [late-2000s recession](/source/Great_Recession).[60] The magazine has been derided in rival publishers' blogs, as "repellent" in the *Telegraph*[62] and "a latter-day *[Ab Fab](/source/Absolutely_Fabulous)* manual" in *The Guardian*.[63] A 'well-thumbed' copy of the supplement was found when rebel forces broke into [Colonel Gaddafi](/source/Colonel_Gaddafi)'s Tripoli compound during the [2011 Libyan Civil War](/source/Libyan_civil_war_(2011)).[64]

In September 2021, an Arabic version of *HTSI* was launched by [Othman Al Omeir](/source/Othman_Al_Omeir), founder of *[Elaph](/source/Elaph)* online newspaper.[65] *HTSI Arabic* is published in London.[65]

The name of the magazine was changed in 2022 from *How to Spend It* to *HTSI*.

## Editorial stance

Russian president [Vladimir Putin](/source/Vladimir_Putin) in controversial interview by [Lionel Barber](/source/Lionel_Barber) and Henry Foy of the *Financial Times* in 2019

The *FT* advocates [free markets](/source/Free_market), and is in favour of [globalisation](/source/Globalisation). During the 1980s, it supported [Margaret Thatcher](/source/Margaret_Thatcher) and [Ronald Reagan](/source/Ronald_Reagan)'s [monetarist](/source/Monetarism) policies.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] It has supported the UK [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) in the past, including at the [general election in 1992](/source/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election) when [Neil Kinnock](/source/Neil_Kinnock) was Labour leader. The *FT*'s editorials tend to be [pro-European](/source/Pro-Europeanism).[66] The *FT* was firmly opposed to the [Iraq War](/source/Iraq_War).[66] Due to its advocacy of free markets and free trade, it is often identified as [centrist](/source/Centrism)[67] to [centre-right](/source/Centre-right_politics)[68] in its political positions.

The modern *FT* is a product of a merger of two smaller newspapers in [1945](/source/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election); since that time, the paper had backed the [Conservatives](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) fairly consistently, but Labour's tacking to the centre, combined with the Conservatives' embrace of Euroscepticism, led the *FT* to reverse course and back Labour from [1992](/source/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election) until [2010](/source/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election), when the *FT* returned to the Conservative Party. Euroscepticism further drove a wedge between the *FT* and the Conservatives in [2019](/source/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election), when the paper refused to make an endorsement, opposed to Labour's [socialist economic policies](/source/List_of_Labour_Party_(UK)_general_election_manifestos) (for wanting to "reverse, not revise, the Thatcherite revolution of the 1980s") and the Conservatives' commitment to a [hard Brexit](/source/Hard_Brexit).[69][70]

In respect of the [Russian invasion of Ukraine](/source/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine), FT commentator [Martin Wolf](/source/Martin_Wolf) expressed support for Ukraine.[71] Two years before the invasion of Ukraine by [Russia](/source/Russia), the FT offered an interview to the Russian President [Vladimir Putin](/source/Vladimir_Putin).[72] The interview received praise, as it offered an unusual access to the Russian leader's thinking.[73] President Putin used the interview to state his opinions about the value of liberal democracy.[74] The Ukrainian newspaper [Kyiv Post](/source/Kyiv_Post) accused the FT of asking President Putin softball questions, and said the interviewers failed to hold Putin to account.[75]

### United Kingdom politics

FT endorsements (1979–2024) 1979 Conservative 1983 Conservative 1987 Conservative 1992 Labour 1997 Labour 2001 Labour 2005 Labour 2010 Conservative 2015 Conservative 2017 Conservative 2019 No endorsement 2024 Labour

In the [2010 general election](/source/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election), the *FT* was receptive to the [Liberal Democrats](/source/Liberal_Democrats_(UK))' positions on civil liberties and political reform, and praised the then [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) leader [Gordon Brown](/source/Gordon_Brown) for his response to the [2008 financial crisis](/source/2008_financial_crisis), but on balance it backed the [Conservatives](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)), while questioning their tendency to [Euroscepticism](/source/Euroscepticism).[76]

In the [2015 general election](/source/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election), the *FT* called for the continuation of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition that had governed for the previous five years.[77] In the [2017 general election](/source/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election), an *FT* editorial reluctantly backed Conservative [Theresa May](/source/Theresa_May) over Labour [Jeremy Corbyn](/source/Jeremy_Corbyn), while warning about her stance on immigration and the Eurosceptic elements in her party.[78] The *FT* declared [2019 general election](/source/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election) a "fateful election" that "offers no good choices".[79] In the [2024 general election](/source/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election), the *FT* endorsed the Labour Party again, expressing the need for a "fresh start", while cautioning "Labour's interventionist instincts and fervour for regulation".[80]

### United States politics

In the [2008 United States presidential election](/source/2008_United_States_presidential_election), the *Financial Times* endorsed [Barack Obama](/source/Barack_Obama). While it raised concerns over hints of [protectionism](/source/Protectionism), it praised his ability to "engage the country's attention", his calls for a bipartisan politics, and his plans for "[comprehensive health-care reform](/source/Healthcare_reform_in_the_United_States)".[81] The *FT* favoured Obama again in the [2012 United States presidential election](/source/2012_United_States_presidential_election).[82] The *FT* endorsed Democratic candidates [Hillary Clinton](/source/Hillary_Clinton) in the run-up to the [2016 United States presidential election](/source/2016_United_States_presidential_election), [Joe Biden](/source/Joe_Biden) in the [2020 United States presidential election](/source/2020_United_States_presidential_election), and [Kamala Harris](/source/Kamala_Harris) in the [2024 United States presidential election](/source/2024_United_States_presidential_election).[83][84][85]

## Ownership and related publications

The *FT* has been owned by [Nikkei](/source/Nikkei%2C_Inc.) since 2015; the Japanese holding company purchased the paper for [£](/source/Pound_sterling)844m ([US$](/source/US%24)1.32 billion).

On 23 July 2015, [Nikkei, Inc.](/source/Nikkei%2C_Inc.) agreed to buy the Financial Times Group, a division of [Pearson plc](/source/Pearson_plc) since 1957, for £844m (US$1.32 billion)[39][40] and the acquisition was completed on 30 November 2015.[41] Under the transaction agreement, Pearson retained the publishing rights to FT Press and licensed the trademark from Nikkei.[86] Until August 2015 the FT group had a 50% shareholding in *[The Economist](/source/The_Economist)*, which was sold to the [Agnelli family](/source/Agnelli_family) for £469 million.[87] Related publications include the *Financial Times*, FT.com, FT Search Inc., the publishing imprint FT Press and numerous joint ventures. In November 2013 it agreed to sell [Mergermarket](/source/Mergermarket), an online intelligence reporting business, to the London private equity investor BC Partners.[88] In addition, the FT Group has a unit called FT Specialist, which is a provider of specialist information on retail, personal and institutional finance segments. It publishes *[The Banker](/source/The_Banker)*, *[Money Management](/source/Money_Management)* and *FT Adviser* (a publication targeted to the financial intermediary market),[89] *fDi Intelligence* and *Professional Wealth Management* (PWM).[90] In 2023, FT Specialist acquired a majority stake in medical publisher [Endpoints News](/source/Endpoints_News).[91]

The Financial Times Group announced the beta launch of newssift,[92] part of FT Search, in March 2009. Newssift.com is a next-generation search tool for business professionals that indexes millions of articles from thousands of global business news sources, not just the *FT*. The Financial Times Group acquired Money Media[93] (an [online news](/source/Online_news) and commentary site for the industry) and Exec-Appointments[94] (an online recruitment specialist site for the executive jobs market). The FT Group once had a 13.85% stake in Business Standard Ltd of India, the publisher of the *[Business Standard](/source/Business_Standard)*. It sold this stake in April 2008 and has entered into an agreement with [Network 18](/source/Network_18) to launch the *Financial Times* in India,[95][96] though it is speculated that they may find it difficult to do so, as the brand 'Financial Times' in India is owned by [The Times Group](/source/The_Times_Group),[97] the publisher of *[The Times of India](/source/The_Times_of_India)* and *[The Economic Times](/source/The_Economic_Times)*. The group also publishes [America's Intelligence Wire](/source/America's_Intelligence_Wire), a daily general [newswire](/source/Newswire) service.[98]

The *Financial Times'* Financial Publishing division (formerly FT Business) provides print and online content for retail, personal and institutional finance audiences. Examples of publications and services include: *[Investors Chronicle](/source/Investors_Chronicle)*, a personal finance magazine and website; "FT Money", a weekly personal finance supplement in "FT Weekend"; *FT Wealth*, a magazine for the global high-net-worth community and FTfm, a weekly review of the global fund management industry, *[Money Management](/source/Money_Management)* and *FT Adviser*. The institutional segment includes: *[The Banker](/source/The_Banker)*, *[This Is Africa](/source/This_Is_Africa)*, *[fDi](/source/FDi_magazine)* [*Intelligence*](/source/FDi_magazine) and *Professional Wealth Management* (PWM).[99] Money-Media, a separate arm of Financial Publishing, delivers a range of digital information services for fund management professionals around the globe, including: Ignites, Ignites Europe, Ignites Asia, FundFire and BoardIQ. Financial Publishing includes publications (*[Pensions Expert](/source/Pensions_Expert)* and *Deutsche Pensions & Investmentnachrichten*) and events (*Investment Expert*) for the European pensions industry. The group also publishes MandateWire, a financial information company that provides sales and market intelligence for investment professionals in North America, Europe and Asia.[90]

FT Knowledge is an associated company which offers educational products and services. FT Knowledge has offered the "Introducing the City" course (which is a series of Wednesday night lectures and seminars, as well as weekend events) during each autumn and spring since 2000. FT Predict is an editorial service on forecasted economic events hosted by the *Financial Times* that allows users to buy and sell contracts based on future financial, political and news-driven events by spending fictional Financial Times Dollars (FT$). Based on the assumptions displayed in James Surowiecki's *[The Wisdom of Crowds](/source/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds)*, this contest allows people to use forecasted economic events to observe future occurrences while competing for weekly and monthly prizes.

The *Financial Times* also ran a business-related game called "In the Pink" (a phrase meaning "in good health", also a reference to the colour of the newspaper and to the phrase "in the red" meaning to be making a loss). Each player was put in the virtual role of Chief Executive and the goal was to have the highest [profit](/source/Profit_(accounting)) when the game closes. The winner of the game (the player who makes the highest profit) was to receive a real monetary prize of £10,000. The game ran from 1 May to 28 June 2006.

In 2019, the *Financial Times* announced it was investing in *Sifted*, a digital-only news site and newsletter covering European [startups](/source/Startup_company). The *Financial Times'* initial 25% stake was subsequently diluted to 14% due to later investments from others. This marked the start of a planned 7-year strategic relationship with Sifted.[100] [101]

## Indices

A selection of *FT* [market indices](/source/Stock_market_index), 2019

The *Financial Times* collates and publishes a number of [financial market indices](/source/Stock_market_index), which reflect the changing value of their constituent parts. The longest-running of these was the former *Financial News Index*, started on 1 July 1935 by the *Financial News*. The *FT* published a similar index; this was replaced by the *Financial News Index* — which was then renamed the *Financial Times (FT) Index* — on 1 January 1947. The index started as an index of industrial shares, and companies with dominant overseas interests were excluded, such as the [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company](/source/Anglo-Iranian_Oil_Company) (later [BP](/source/BP)), [British-American Tobacco](/source/British-American_Tobacco), [Lever Brothers](/source/Lever_Brothers) (later [Unilever](/source/Unilever)) and [Shell](/source/Royal_Dutch_Shell). The oil and financial sectors were included decades later.[102]

The [FTSE All-Share Index](/source/FTSE_All-Share_Index), the first of the FTSE series of indices, was created in 1962, comprising the largest 594 UK companies by market capitalisation.[102] The letters *F-T-S-E* represented that FTSE was a joint venture between the *Financial Times* (**F-T**) and the [London Stock Exchange](/source/London_Stock_Exchange) (**S-E**). On 13 February 1984 the [FTSE 100](/source/FTSE_100) was introduced, representing about eighty per cent of the London Stock Exchange's value.[102] [FTSE Group](/source/FTSE_Group) was made an independent company in 1995. The first of several overseas offices was opened in New York City in 1999; Paris followed in early 2000, Hong Kong, [Frankfurt](/source/Frankfurt) and San Francisco in 2001, [Madrid](/source/Madrid) in 2002 and Tokyo in 2003.

Other well-known FTSE indices include the [FTSE 350 Index](/source/FTSE_350_Index), the [FTSE SmallCap Index](/source/FTSE_SmallCap_Index), the [FTSE AIM UK 50 Index](/source/FTSE_AIM_UK_50_Index) and [FTSE AIM 100 Index](/source/FTSE_AIM_100_Index) as well as the [FTSE AIM All-Share Index](/source/FTSE_AIM_All-Share_Index) for stocks, and the FTSE UK Gilt Indices for government bonds.

In 2021, the *Financial Times* started publishing three multi-asset indexes with [Wilshire Associates](/source/Wilshire_Associates) covering combinations of the top five cryptocurrencies.[57]

## People

In July 2006, the *FT* announced a "New Newsroom" project to integrate the newspaper more closely with FT.com. At the same time it announced plans to cut the editorial staff from 525 to 475. In August 2006 it announced that all the required job cuts had been achieved through voluntary layoffs. A number of former *FT* journalists have gone on to high-profile jobs in journalism, politics and business. [Robert Thomson](/source/Robert_James_Thomson), previously the paper's US managing editor, was the editor of *[The Times](/source/The_Times)* and is now the chief executive of [News Corporation](/source/News_Corporation). [Will Lewis](/source/William_Lewis_(journalist)), a former New York correspondent and News Editor for the *FT*, edited *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)* and *[The Wall Street Journal](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal)*. [Dominic Lawson](/source/Dominic_Lawson) went on to become editor of the *[Sunday Telegraph](/source/Sunday_Telegraph)* until he was dismissed in 2005. [Andrew Adonis](/source/Andrew_Adonis), a former education correspondent, became an adviser on education to the then British Prime Minister, [Tony Blair](/source/Tony_Blair), and was given a job as an education minister and a seat in the [House of Lords](/source/House_of_Lords) after the 2005 election. [Ed Balls](/source/Ed_Balls) became chief economic adviser to the Treasury, working closely with [Gordon Brown](/source/Gordon_Brown), the [chancellor of the exchequer](/source/Chancellor_of_the_exchequer), before being elected a Member of Parliament in 2005, and became [Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families](/source/Secretary_of_State_for_Children%2C_Schools_and_Families) in July 2007.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

[Bernard Gray](/source/Bernard_Gray), a former defence correspondent and Lex columnist, was chief executive of the publishing company CMP before becoming chief executive of TSL Education, publisher of the *[Times Educational Supplement](/source/Times_Educational_Supplement)*. David Jones, at one time the *FT*'s Night Editor, then became Head of IT. He was a key figure in the newspaper's transformation from hot metal to electronic composition and then onto full-page pagination in the 1990s. He went on to become Head of Technology for the Trinity Mirror Group.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

Sir Geoffrey Owen was the editor of the *Financial Times* from 1981 to 1990. He joined the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the [London School of Economics](/source/London_School_of_Economics) as Director of Business Policy in 1991 and was appointed Senior Fellow, Institute of Management, in 1997. He continues his work there.[103] During his tenure at the *FT* he had to deal with rapid technological change and issues related to it, for example repetitive strain injury (RSI), which affected dozens of *FT* journalists, reporters and staff in the late 1980s.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Editors

- 1889: Douglas MacRae

- 1890: [W. R. Lawson](/source/W._R._Lawson)

- 1892: Sydney Murray

- 1896: A. E. Murray

- 1909: C. H. Palmer

- 1924: D. S. T. Hunter

- 1937: [Archibald Chisholm](/source/Archibald_Chisholm)

- 1940: Albert George Cole

- 1945: [Hargreaves Parkinson](/source/Hargreaves_Parkinson)

- 1949: [Sir Gordon Newton](/source/Gordon_Newton)

- 1973: [Fredy Fisher](/source/Fredy_Fisher)

- 1981: [Geoffrey Owen](/source/Geoffrey_Owen)

- 1991: [Richard Lambert](/source/Richard_Lambert)

- 2001: [Andrew Gowers](/source/Andrew_Gowers)

- 2006: [Lionel Barber](/source/Lionel_Barber)

- 2020: [Roula Khalaf](/source/Roula_Khalaf)

## See also

- [Journalism portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Journalism)
- [London portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:London)

- [Business journalism](/source/Business_journalism)

- [Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award](/source/Financial_Times_Business_Book_of_the_Year_Award)

- [Financial Times Person of the Year](/source/Financial_Times_Person_of_the_Year)

- [List of newspapers in the United Kingdom](/source/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom)

- [Periodical literature](/source/Periodical_literature)

- [TNW (website)](/source/TNW_(website))

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