Cinco Días (Spanish: Five Days) is a business and finance newspaper published in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1978 it is the oldest business newspaper in the country.^[1]

Cinco Días was first published in March 1978.^[2][3] The reason behind the establishment of this business paper was related to the oil crisis experienced in the country in the mid-1970s.^[4] Due to this crisis Spanish society became more interested in macro economics and labor-related problems.^[4]

Cinco Días is published in tabloid format^[5] five times per week from Monday to Friday^[2] and is based in Madrid.^[1][6] In 1989 the paper became owned by the PRISA group^[7] which is also the owner of El País and Diario AS.^[8][9][10] The publisher of Cinco Días is Estructura, a subsidiary of Prisa Group.^[5][11]

Cinco Días has various supplements^[12] and includes a section for articles from The Wall Street Journal.^[13] The paper has a left-liberal stance.^[7][14]

Cinco Días's circulation was 21,623 copies in 1994.^[5] The paper sold 28,000 copies in 2001^[15] and 24,621 copies in 2002.^[16] The paper had a circulation of 25,041 copies on weekdays in 2003, and it rose to 29,333 copies on weekdays in 2004.^[17] The circulation of the paper increased to 30,425 copies in 2005.^[18] In 2006 its readership was 30%, making it the fifth most read business paper among Spanish men.^[4] Its circulation rose to 33,997 copies in 2006 and to 40,554 copies in 2007.^[17] The paper sold 40,554 copies in 2008.^[19] Its circulation was 40,000 copies in 2011.^[12]