Economy from Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza & Formentera
Prices, wages, housing and the numbers behind island life.
Spain fails to persuade the EU to make cabin bags free on flights
The new passenger rights rules guarantee a free personal item but allow airlines to charge for a larger cabin bag. Delay compensation is preserved.
Read MoreCatalonia leads Spain's charcuterie industry with €2.86 billion a year
More than 180 companies, 15,500 jobs and over half of Spain's exports: a study maps the Catalan cured and cooked meats sector.
Read MoreSpaceX sets IPO price at $135 a share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion
The offering could raise about $75 billion — the largest in history — while Elon Musk keeps 82.4% of the voting power.
Read MoreSpanish household deposits reach a record €1.1 trillion, but growth stalls
Families held €1.1024 trillion in bank deposits in April, just €600 million more than in March, while company deposits fell.
Read MoreAlphabet to raise $80 billion by selling shares to fund AI expansion
Berkshire Hathaway will buy $10 billion of the new stock, as Google says demand for its AI services outstrips capacity.
Read MoreMoody's upgrades Grifols to B1, two years after the Gotham storm
The ratings agency cites the Spanish plasma company's debt reduction and stronger cash flow, and gives it a stable outlook.
Read MoreGovernment plans to make Red Eléctrica the hub for all electricity customer data
A new royal decree would centralise data on Spain's 30 million electricity customers, currently held by more than 300 distributors.
Read MoreSpain launches plan to turn its gastronomy into a strategic international asset
The ten-point International Plan for Spanish Gastronomy includes a bid for UNESCO recognition of the tapa and a single national food brand.
Read MoreMarisa Estévez: the engineer pushing for leadership without gender or generation gaps
The BT executive and president of the executives' association EJE&CON on engineering, equality and responsible AI.
Read MoreTelefónica completes sale of its Colombian business to Millicom
The sale of its 67.5% stake for about €182 million will cut the group's net debt by around €1.55 billion.
Read MoreBarcelona court rules that a pet emergency can justify missing work
A judge overturned the dismissal of a worker who missed a shift to have her terminally ill dog put down, citing Spain's 2023 animal welfare law.
Read MoreAlphabet's profit rises 32% to $132 billion in 2025 as AI drives growth
Revenue passed $400 billion for the first time, Google Cloud grew strongly, and the company plans to roughly double capital spending in 2026.
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