Diario Financiero is a Chilean economic newspaper founded by a group of journalists from the Economy and Business Corps of El Mercurio on October 25, 1988.

The tabloid has been using the orange paper that distinguishes economic media in the world since its June 19, 1989 edition, such as the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 ORE. Its main competence is the "Economy and Business" body of El Mercurio, Pulso of the Copesa and Estrategia.

The idea of creating a newspaper specialized in finance arises in mid-1988 from the journalist René Jáuregui, then in Economy and Business of El Mercurio, who in a conversation at the house of Osvaldo Cifuentes, raises the idea to Enrique Contreras and Roberto Meza .1 She consisted of launching a page distributed in the financial district of Santiago, something similar to how Ámbito Financiero had begun in Argentina, but in the days Mario Vackflores, partner of Meza in a communications agency, stated that it should be a daily.

The arrival of the Spanish group allowed a boost in the editorial part by having key agreements such as translation and exclusive rights over articles from the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Economist Intelligence Unit and Expansion itself.

With this, the Claro group increased its participation in Ediciones Financieras SA, controller of Diario Financiero, to 73.31%, leaving the rest of the property in the hands of well-known Chilean entrepreneurs such as Roberto Izquierdo Menéndez (Alimar companies), Andrés Navarro ( Sonda) and José Luis Del Río (Derco / Falabella).