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 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 ... more

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 results of every FTSE Company, and an analysis of the results for all the bigger companies. It arrives on my doorstep every Friday morning, and I ... more

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 ... more

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 that, the paper itself makes slightly heavy reading for the man in the street, and for perhaps the casual occasional investor. It is also fairly ... more

'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 salt knows that the FT is the place to go for strong reports on everything from coffee markets to futures markets. You can follow that millionaire's ... more