Editorial Abstract

Handelsblatt is the biggest circulation business & financial newspaper in German-speaking Europe. Some 180 journalists/correspondents worldwide guarantee exclusive, up-to-date critical/analytical reporting on national & international subjects & events. It has one of the most extensive global networks of all German dailies with more than 30 correspondents, 20 of which are exclusive. Handelsblatt readers are the decision-makers & opinion leaders of the German economy & society as a whole. According to the authoritative decision-maker readership survey, LAE 2015, 290,000 decision-makers read Handelsblatt regularly. A tribute to its up-to-date, high-quality reporting is the fact that Handelsblatt is the most quoted quality newspaper in Germany, i.e. not just ahead of all business and financial media but also the supra-regional daily newspapers. Handelsblatt is published Monday to Friday, on stock exchange trading days. Daily sections include "Business and Politics", "Companies and Markets" and "Finance".