| With the rapid economic development of modern society, the information concerning finance and economics has exerted great influence over people's daily life. Consequently financial and economic news reportage has begun to arouse more and more concerns from its readership. The Economist, which is considered as a must-read publication for British financial sector and a famous English weekly that emphasizes on economic news reportage, attracting people's attention as a matter of course. However, the previous studies on financial and economic news reportage mainly focus on such aspects as content of coverage, practical value, angles of reporting as well as skills of interview and writing; whilst few works involve a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the stylistic features.The present thesis is an attempt to investigate the stylistic features of the journalistic English used in financial and economic news reportage on the basis of the theory of modern stylistics. The pieces of financial and economic news reportage were collected from The Economist (May to August in 2009) and a corpus FER of 103,000 words was established. The other corpus LOBA was employed to make a comparison to find similarities and differences of their stylistic features. Moreover, some software was used to help analyzing the data so as to obtain a more scientific result. Finally, it was concluded that the FER has its distinctive stylistic features on graphological, lexical, syntactical, textual levels. Therefore, this thesis aimed to provide a method to read and even write financial and economic news reportage and help readers to understand this kind of reportage well.
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