Financial Times facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Financial Times

Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Nikkei Inc.
Founded	9 January 1888; 136 years ago (1888-01-09)
Political alignment	Liberal conservatism Economic liberalism
Headquarters	Bracken House, London, UK
Country	United Kingdom
Circulation	185,747 (Print) 740.000 (Digital) (as of 2018)
ISSN	0307-1766

The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London. It is printed in 24 cities around the world. About 110 of its 475 journalists are outside the UK.

Along with FT.com, it has an average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide. FT.com has 4 million registered users and 250,000 digital subscribers, as well as 585,681 paying users. The Financial Times in print format has an average daily circulation of three hundred and five thousand copies worldwide as of April 2012.

It was started in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley. The FT specialises in UK and international business and financial news. It is printed as a broadsheet on light salmon paper.

Images for kids

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  The front page of the Financial Times on 13 February 1888

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  The London offices of the Financial Times at One Southwark Bridge, 2013

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  Russian president Vladimir Putin being interviewed by Lionel Barber and Henry Foy of the Financial Times in 2019

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  The FT has been owned by Nikkei since 2015; the Japanese holding company purchased the paper for £844m (US$1.32 billion)

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  A selection of FT market indices, 2019

See also

In Spanish: Financial Times para niños