The Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the longest established newspaper titles in the world. Its only equivalent for global influence in the commercial world is probably the Wall Street Journal. To many casual readers it is probably largely incomprehensible. A huge source of data on currency markets, stock exchanges in the UK, US, Europe and indeed throughout the world as capitalism is now the dominant economic force since the collapse of the Soviet communist economies. Of course one can quickly point out that it is unlikely you will have a casual reader of the FT. Quite simply because you would have to have much more than a passing interest in economics to read ...

I love the F.T. I first started reading it about six years ago to check the price of some shares my parents gave me, and I have been reading it faithfully ever since. It's not just that it's taught me everything I know about finance, but I also feel it's the most neutral, least politically biased newspaper published in Britain. First some background: The Financial Times was first published in 1888 and adopted the distinctive salmon coloured paper in 1893 to distinguish itself from other papers. The paper is owned by Pearson Plc (who publish Penguin). In 1997, it launched the US edition and by 1998 it became the first UK-based paper to sell ...

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the longest established newspaper titles in the world. Its only equivalent for global influence in the commercial world is probably the Wall Street Journal. To many casual readers it is probably largely incomprehensible. A huge source of data on currency markets, stock exchanges in the UK, US, Europe and indeed throughout the world as capitalism is now the dominant economic force since the collapse of the Soviet communist economies. Of course one can quickly point out that it is unlikely you will have a casual reader of the FT. Quite simply because you would have to have much more than a passing interest in economics to read ...