The Financial Times (FT) is a British English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news in the United Kingdom and internationally. The paper, published by Pearson PLC in London, was founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, and merged with its closest rival, the Financial News (which had been founded in 1884) in 1945.
The FT has an average daily readership of 2.2 million people worldwide (PwC audited figures, November 2011). FT.com has 4.5 million registered users and over 285,000 digital subscribers, as well as 600,000 paying users. FT Chinese has more than 1.7 million registered users. The world editions of the Financial Times newspaper had a combined average daily circulation of 293,000 copies (88,000 for the UK edition), for the period 1–28 October 2012. The average daily circulation of all the world editions, combined, of the Financial Times newspaper in August 2013 was 236 thousand copies.
Its closest rival is The Wall Street Journal, an American financial news publication published in New York City by News Corp.
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