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The price of the weekday Financial Times has risen to £2.20, a 20 per cent increase.

The price hike makes the financial title £1 more expensive than the second most expensive daily, the Guardian.

The Guardian raised its own daily cover charge last month, from £1 to £1.20, and raised the price of the Saturday edition by 10p to £2.10.

The other main national broadsheets, the Times, the Telegraph, and the Independent, remain £1 during the week.

According to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the FT was the only national daily to record a month-on-month sales increase in September, up 3.8 per cent to 344,583, but circulation was down 11.7 per cent year-on-year from 390,228 last September.

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