FT.com's industry-specific weekday email alerts

Today I learnt that the FT offers daily industry-specific email alerts for corporate subscribers.

Corporate subscribers to the FT.com can sign up to weekday email alerts that provide headlines and links to relevant stories, blogs, videos and markets data for individual industry sectors. I think they may prove very popular with our lawyers. You can select from the following topics:

Aerospace & defence

Automobiles

Banking

Basic resources/mining

Corporate finance/M&A

Economics & finance

Energy

Fund/asset management

Global business

Industrial goods & services

Insurance

Management

Markets

Media

Pharmaceuticals & Health

Real estate

Regulation & compliance

Retail & consumer

Technology & science

Telecoms

Transport

Travel & leisure

World affairs & politics

http://www.ft.com/

Corporate subscribers can go to Alerts Hub to sign up.

Financial Times app for Android

Today I learnt there is a Financial Times app for Android.

Registered users can access up to 10 articles for free every 30 days.
Standard subscribers receive full access to all content except the FT’s Lex columns.
Premium subscribers receive full access to all content.

Unfortunately I can't get it to work on my phone as you need to have Android 2.2 or above.

Further information, including how to download the app, are available on the FT website at:
http://apps.ft.com/android/index.html

FTSE 350 Constituent Companies - Current and Historical Lists

Today I learnt where to find current and historical lists of FTSE 350 constituent companies.

First I tried the London Stock Exchange website and the Financial Times. Both have good data but not exactly what I needed today. The FTSE itself provides a current list, but for historical data you need to contact the sales team. That was no good, as I didn't want to incur a large cost.

So then I looked at BIALL's How Do I? Wiki which had an entry on the exact same thing I needed, called "FTSE indices - lists of constituent companies". From this I learnt that there is a quarterly publication called Company Guide (from Charterhouse Communications) which includes FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies. Hurray!

Finally I contacted City Business Library, which holds the last 3 years of Company Guide, and I was kindly informed that their neighbour, the Guildhall Library, holds even longer runs that you can photocopy from. Job done. Whether or not my enquirer will make the trip up to Guildhall is another matter...

LSE's Historical Statistics:
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/statistics/historic/historic.htm

FT's Market Data Archive:
http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Data-Archive
FTSE's Current Constituents:

http://www.ftse.com/Indices/UK_Indices/Constituents.jsp

BIALL's How Do I? Wiki. Page on FTSE Indices:
http://biallpr.pbworks.com/w/page/5259177/FTSE%20indices%20-%20lists%20of%20constituent%20companies

City of London Libraries:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Libraries/City_of_London_libraries/