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Reuters
2 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
Spain retail sales rise 6.2% year-on-year in June
July 29 (Reuters) - Spanish retail sales rose 6.2% in June from a year earlier on a calendar-adjusted basis and excluding the effects of inflation, after rising by a revised 5.0% in May, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Tuesday. May's figure was revised up from a preliminary increase of 4.8%, INE said.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Liam Payne's Sister Praises Late Singer's ‘Great' Performance in ‘Building the Band'
One Direction fans were delighted to see the late Liam Payne appear in the new trailer for Netflix's Building the Band on Tuesday (June 24). Now, the late singer's sister is weighing in with her thoughts on the forthcoming series. In a post to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Payne's sister Ruth Gibbins shared the trailer to the new show and explained why she was overcome with emotion while watching the clip. 'I didn't know whether to share this but it felt weird when I've raved about Liam's work and achievements for the last 15 years,' she wrote. 'Im heartbroken he never got to see how great he is in this show. He knew he had done a good job, we all told him this when we were at filming, but watching it back, wow!' More from Billboard Liam Payne Helps Aspiring Singers Make a 'Connection' in New 'Building the Band' Trailer Luis Cortés, Angelina Victoria, Maeso & More Emerging Latin Artists on Our Radar Selena Gomez Says Ice Cube Was Her Childhood Celebrity Crush: 'I Just Thought He Would Protect Me' Gibbins continued, sharing a touching tribute to her brother. 'You're a star Liam, you always were and always will be,' she wrote. 'There are a range of emotions I felt watching this, but one of the main ones ins immeasurable pride, always. Miss you more every day.' In the trailer for the reality show, Payne offers sage advice to the show's competitors, each of whom are tasked with forming six bands without getting to see one another until after they've created their group. 'You have a lot of work to do, vocally,' he says to one group in the clip. 'I need to feel that connection between you guys.' The competition series, which is set to drop on Netflix July 9, wrapped filming two months before Payne died in October. After receiving the go-ahead from Payne's family, the streamer announced in January that it would release the show as planned, and that the late singer's family was 'supportive of his inclusion' in the series. Watch the full trailer for Netflix's Building the Band below: Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Argaam
09-07-2025
- Business
- Argaam
Nvidia becomes first company ever to cross $4T market cap
Chipmaker Nvidia has become the first company ever with a market value exceeding the $4 trillion mark after its shares jumped during Wednesday's trading. The company's shares rose 2.6% to $164.53 at 04:48 Makkah time, to push its market cap to above $4 trillion. Nvidia has thus grown into the most valuable company in the world, surpassing Microsoft and Apple which have previously hit the $3 trillion market cap. The market value of the US chipmaker surpassed the $1 trillion barrier for the first time in June 2023. It doubled this value during a single year. Nvidia's share roe by more than 74% from a record low in April, when markets witnessed turmoil following the US President's announcement of reciprocal tariffs, before suspending them.
Bloomberg
09-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Black Employment Is on a Worrying Decline
Amid a pretty good jobs report last week, there were some disturbing signs for Black Americans. The Black unemployment rate reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shot up to 6.8% in June from 6% in May (and from an all-time low of 4.8% in April 2023), while the overall unemployment rate fell to 4.1% from 4.2%. And while unemployment rates for minority groups can jump around a lot from month to month, the less-noisy employment-population ratio for Black Americans has been sliding for more than a year now, and as of June was 2 percentage points below its 2023 average. Because the employment-population ratio is to some extent determined by the age of the population, in particular the growing share that is 65 or older, the so-called prime-age ratio for ages 25 through 54 is a better metric — probably the single best measure of the health of the labor market. But the BLS doesn't publish it in seasonally adjusted form for most demographic groups, and the seasonal swings can be quite large, so I've made do here with 12-month moving averages of the unadjusted ratios.
Hospitality Net
06-07-2025
- Business
- Hospitality Net
Crafting a Hotel Marketing Budget: Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
At the HSMAI Commercial Strategy Conference on June 17, Stephanie Smith of Cogwheel tried to change mindsets about how backwards most hotel marketing budgets are created. There are 3 ways to create a hotel marketing budget: Too Little – Take last year's budget and add 10% Too Much – Take your top line forecast then budget 3-8% towards marketing Just Right – Follow the following steps to property justify a targeting hotel marketing budget Steps to Creating a Hotel Marketing Budget Without following this framework as a hotel commercial team, you will never be able to solve issues or reach team goals. Otherwise, we are left trying to stretch dollars across various tactics too thin. Define Gaps and Goals Determine a Strategy (as a team) Solve with Specific Tactics Allocate funds and budgets — Source: Cogwheel Marketing & Analytics Sample Hotel Commercial Scenarios and How to Solve with Hotel Digital Marketing Then, Stephanie walked through 6 different commercial strategy scenarios and how to plan against them for marketing. Each of these gaps or goals are generally sales or revenue problems that hotel marketers need to plan to help solve. In each scenario, we walk through the steps above to see how different strategies and budgets can solve various gaps or achieve specific goals. Scenario 1: Our market is heavily saturated with hotels of the same brand, we are not getting our fair share Scenario 2: Group PACE has dropped, so we are relying more on transient in specific quarters Scenario 3: Demand in the market has softened, everyone is fighting over the same business Scenario 4:We have a newly rebranded hotel, RAMP is slow, no one knows us as the new name. Scenario 5: It is the middle of the month, and we are not going to meet this month's budget. Scenario 6: Profit is low due to OTA commissions. To see the sample strategies, tactics and budgets used to solve against these scenarios, please review the entire deck presented at the conference: Download here Lastly, a chart of digital marketing KPIs, not just ROAS and cheat sheet to align the customer journey funnel and their aligned tactics, KPIs and costs. About Cogwheel Marketing Cogwheel Marketing™️ is a full service digital marketing agency specializing in branded hotels, first leveraging brand systems then coupling that with supplemental strategies to maximize total online presence. Their reporting and business intelligence tool, Cogwheel Analytics, aggregates data from multiple sources to allow companies to identify trends and opportunities in their online presence. Our defined processes ensure the best positioning for your hotel against the competitive set and against other hotels of the same brand. Let us work with your sales and revenue management teams to identify and close the gaps and target your ideal guests. View source
