The Financial Times

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 1997, it launched the US edition and by 1998 it became the first UK-based paper to sell more copies internationally than in the UK. FT Deutchland which is in German, was launched in 2000. The Financial Times is rated higher than the Wall Street Journal, primarily because it is so accurate, authoritative and neutral (the Wall Street Journal by contrast has a neo-conservative slant and is not trusted in Asia and Europe). Rumour has it that the F.T. ...

snowflake5 16.12.2005 (01.03.2006) · Read full review
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Since I started investing in the Stock Market, I have found the Investors Chronicle to be an invaluable source of up to the minute information on Company news and results, detailed analysis on Companies and Sectors, summaries of brokers opinions, and regular items on how to assess the potential of a Company. It also gives excellent share tips, and very extensive tabulations on many aspects of Company performance, new issues etc. It also gives the ...

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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 ...
...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 it. The FT is enormously detailed and articles are often written to a depth rarely encountered in any other newspaper. In my business we often use the FT as a source of data particularly for currencies. Most global trade needs to have some form of currency exchange eg from US dollar to the Euro or Sterling. It is to ...

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For those serious investors in the stock market, there can be no better daily publication on this planet. Packed from cover to cover with company news, world wide business and economic information, and an unbeatable set of tabulations of share price movements, trading volumes, dividend income rates etc. It also has an unparalled coverage of unit trust, managed funds etc prices. American stocks etc are covered as well as those in the UK. Having said ...
...man in the street, and for perhaps the casual occasional investor. It is also fairly expensive. If you have the time and patience, much of the basic information and data can, in fact, be found on the internet, BUT, the cost of the phone calls will massively outweigh the cost of the newspaper! ...

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'No FT, No Comment', so the ads for this business bible go. Well, anyone with more than a passing interest in money matters knows this is more than true. The FT is as much a business institution as the Bank of England and £10 notes. Printed on distinctive pinky-orange paper, the FT carries a heavyweight punch to the financial markets with in-depth writing covering everything you need to know. Every businessman - or business student - worth his ...
...English degree to get past the first paragraph. Unfortunately, it's written for those in the know, so exect plenty of jargon that can take an age to decipher! But the paper is not just for business - it also provides strong reports and comment on world news and sports. An all-round strong publication, but not for the faint hearted. Be prepared to set a fair amount of time aside if you want to read it all in detail and get to grips with everything ...

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...I talk of regularly reading the FT are surprised - there seems to be a common misconception that the FT caters only for buiness readers. Alhough, certainly, the FT does contain a lot business news (the companies and markets section is probably of very little use to those uninterested in the financial markets), the reporting on the news is very good indeed, peerless in the daily newspapers and surpassed only by The Economist (another news source that ...
...financial). The background that the reporters obviously know shines through in the quality of the writing, and means that the articles are much more interesting to read than some other publications. The paper also has regular in-depth focused features on specific industries and/or countries, and how they are faring the world today. The downsides to the FT are few, but for some people, major. Firstly, the attention paid to sport is often (during Euro ...

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The Financial Times is the best newspaper that you will find on the newsstands today. It comes in two sections - News and Companies + Markets. This makes the FT an invaluable resource not only for the businessman but also form those interested in politics and current affairs. The quality of FT reporting and analysis is exceptional. Each day there is a whole-page Comment article, and the research which goes into this produces a tremendous finished ...
...another newspaper if only for the obituaries sections in The Times or The Daily Telegraph. Well-known Public Service Editor Nicholas Timmins is one of the best writers in the FT. In addition, the FT is the first choice to read high-profile columnists such as Hilary Rodham Clinton and Viktor Yuschenko, Ukrainian President-Elect. Leading articles will tell you the paper's view on an issue and comment on its issues for the financial world. Politically ...

mrclarke001 07.01.2005 · Read full review
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...far as business newspapers go, the dear old FT is THE BUSINESS. It's not very entertaining for the casual reader, although there's one column on THursdays which tells the sad tale via his e-mail box of a marketing director and his misadventures with AB Global. I awlays find it sharp and witty and well observed. That apart, there is a section on leisure and news which is quite authoritative and well written, but they're only minor distractions for ...
...constantly provides excellent insights into the business world. As far as jobs in Finance, the FT's ads section on Thursday of each week is the best collection in any one place of the best senior jobs around and is mandatory if you're looking to move on. I'm not sure there's much more to say than that really. I like it, but I couldn't buy it every day - Thursday's jobs edition is enough for me. Oh yeah, anyone know why it's pink. ...

dave27 25.03.2001 · Read full review
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...as an alternative to reading the financial times? Lets put it this way, as you flick from orange page to orange page, the will to live slowly - but surely - drains away. Save yourself 50p and jump of a tall building. Come now my friends, have things really got so bad that you have to resort to this dribble? No one actually enjoys reading this - it's just done to fit into some sort of ideal businessman stereotype. There you are, on the way to the ...
...you know as well as the next man, all you really want is a real newspaper, with pretty pictures, and the occasional monosyllabic word. Break free my friend from the mould, which holds you - rebel, and buy something you will enjoy reading. Go on, you only live once... By the way, I have 6 A-levels and a top degree - economics being a speciality. This opinion is not writ out of ignorance. ...

scoobyman 07.12.2000 · Read full review
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...to buy this newspaper all the time. It is so bad that they don't offer a student discount. Daily mail gives out discount voucher in fresher fair. It has 15p off on Mon to Sat and 35p off on Sunday. FT covers a lot on commercial and business news. There is some political stuff but it is all about the economic impacts of government. It is very good for my studies as they are what i need to know about. I will recommend you to buy FT if you are studying ...

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...so be kind. I hate the F.T why is it pink - this is a girly colour for such important news as city information. Do they think their readership enjoys paying such a high price 85p on a weekday for relatively little current news information. I would also like to know why did they send me discount coupons to try the newspaper at 30p for a weekend copy. Did they hope that they could tempt me into paying an unreasonable price later on. How naieve do ...

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The Financial times has a deserved reputation for being, unquestionably, the number 1 publication when it comes to financial reporting, this is not in dispute. The area where it refuses to move with the times (if you pardon the phrase) is in its sports reporting, or lack of. It might have been a proud boast for years that the Financial Times was the only paper without a sports section, but is this truly to its advantage? Has this in part been due ...
...publication were always the ones who had two left feet at school, those who always had a doctors or parents note to get them out of sports? Sport is now big business, and to have a full understanding of this increasing financial world pool you need to have an understanding of whats happening in it. How many people do you see buying the FT and one other paper just for the sports coverage? Come on FT, don't drop the ball! ...

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