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The London Financial Guide began circulation on the 10th of January 1888. The publication renamed itself the Financial Times three weeks later on the 13th of February 1888.
Brendan Bracken purchased the Financial Times from Lord Camrose in 1945 after fifty-seven years of competition with the Financial News. He merged the two papers into a single six-page newspaper that year.
The Financial Times group launched its first online presence as FT.com on the 13th of May 1995. This site initially offered summaries of global news supplemented by stock price coverage starting in February 1996.
The Financial Times backed the UK Labour Party at the general election in 1992 when Neil Kinnock led the party. In 2024, the FT endorsed the Labour Party again calling for a fresh start while cautioning against interventionist instincts.
On the 13th of February 1984, the FTSE 100 was introduced representing about eighty percent of the London Stock Exchange's value. Letters F-T-S-E represented a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange.