Financial Times carrying excellent feature (5)
I believe the answer is:
facet
'feature' is the definition.
(I know that facet is a type of feature)
'financial times carrying excellent' is the wordplay.
'financial times' becomes 'ft' (abbreviation).
'carrying' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'excellent' becomes 'ace' (I've seen this before).
'ft' going around 'ace' is 'FACET'.
(Other definitions for facet that I've seen before include "Look" , "Small flat surface of cut gemstone" , "Gem's cut side" , "Distinct feature" , "Aspect or feature of something" .)