Pearson as a whole is trading strongly, with its education publishing business in particular doing well. Its trading update for the first nine months show total revenues are up 11% and operating profit is up 26%.
Marjorie Scardino, Pearson chief executive, said the company is on track to generate record profits this year.
As well as the FT and , FT Group houses FT Deutschland and France's business newspaper Les Echoes, specialist magazines such as Investors Chronicle, and stakes in The Economist Group and online investor data service IDC.
January-September brought a year-on-year sales increase for the division of 5%, in addition to the 10% increase in ad revenues, and Pearson expects profits to significantly improve compared with last year.
There was no specific figure for the performance of the FT itself, which only returned to profit in 2005 after two years in the red.
Some investors have called for Pearson to sell off the FT, but Scardino's opposition to such a move is well known. Last week Pearson proposed to merge Financial Times Limited with FT Business, the company housing the specialist magazines; no job losses are envisaged.
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