The Nikkei, formally known as The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, is Nikkei, Inc.'s flagship publication and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding three million. The Nikkei 225, a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has been calculated by the newspaper since 1950. The roots of the Nikkei started with an in-house newspaper department of Mitsui & Company in 1876 when it started publication of Chugai Bukka Shimpo, a weekly market-quotation bulletin. The department was spun out as the Shokyosha in 1882. The paper became daily in 1885 and was renamed Chugai Shogyo Simpo in 1889. It was merged with Nikkan Kogyo and Keizai Jiji and renamed Nihon Sangyo Keizai Shimbun in 1942. The paper changed its name to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun in 1946. As of 30 November 2015 Nikkei became the official owner of the Financial Times, having bought the newspaper from Pearson PLC.
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Nikkei Inc. specializes in publishing financial, business and industry news. Its main news publications include:
Nikkei Asian Review, an English-language business journal that launched in November 2013.
, a leading economic newspaper.
, a weekly financial newspaper that replaced Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun in March 2008.
Nikkei sells these newspapers around the world, in their original languages and in translation. It also makes many of its Japanese articles available in English through wire services, an English language website, and a licensing agreement with LexisNexis. In Japan the price of the newspaper Morning edition is 160 yen. The Afternoon edition is 70 yen and subscription is 4,509 yen/month. Nikkei agreed on 23 July 2015 to buy the UK-based FT Group, which includes business daily Financial Times, for the equivalent of $1.32 billion from Pearson PLC. On 30 November 2015, Nikkei completed acquisition of Financial Times from Pearson plc. Nikkei also owns TV Tokyo and Nikkei CNBC, which provides coverage of the Japanese market during trading hours and rebroadcasts CNBC during off-hours and weekends.
In January-May 2020 the website nikkei.com was one of the most popular and reliable sources in Japanese Wikipedia. According to Alexa, the website nikkei.com is the 52nd most popular website in Japan and the 493rd most popular website in Internet.
