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Chipotle Mexican Grill will temporarily close all of its restaurants for several hours February 8 to discuss new changes in the company’s food safety procedures.

The state news agency claimed that the student entered North Korea nominally for tourism, though the real intention was to undermine North Korea’s unity under the USA government’s acquiescence and control.

That’s not good news for our neighbors to the north (or the USA companies that make money exporting to them), but Doyle has been right before, according to the CBC: He nailed a prediction he made last February that the Canadian dollar would fall below 70 cents US within a year.

But Lagarde’s popularity among numerous fund’s most powerful members-including emerging markets-and her signal last October that she is open to serving a second term is driving many fund watchers to call the selection all but over.

AT&T’s 88 percent retention rate was nearly as high as T-Mobile’s, but AT&T gained a smaller percentage of customers from other carriers compared with its rivals. T-Mobile claims that AT&T owns 60% of the low-frequency spectrum in rural areas, and...

There could be six inches of snow on the ground by midnight Friday night, and snowfall rates of an inch or more per hour will continue all night and through most of the day Saturday.

President Park Geun-hye was briefed by foreign, defence and unification ministers about their respective policy directions in 2016, which focused on resolving Pyongyang’s nuclear issue through stronger sanctions and pressure rather than dialogue and consultations, Xinhua...

Canada’s central bank has downgraded its economic outlook for 2016, but this was not enough incentive for it to lower the overnight rate from 0.5%.

Canada’s dollar dipped below 70 cents US on Tuesday for the first time in almost 13 years.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index lost 2.4% to 2,950 and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Composite Index tumbled 3.5% to 1,791. Imports dropped an annual 4 percent in yuan terms, an improvement over the previous month’s 5.6-percent fall.

Oil prices have collapsed to below $28 a barrel, their lowest since 2003, on a supply glut that may worsen this year with the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

Including special items, UAL reported fourth-quarter net income of $823 million. Analysts were expecting UAL to report earnings per share of $2.59 during its fourth quarter. Finally, ICON Advisers raised its stake in shares of United Continental Holdings by 5.0% in the third...

I think the explanation is largely elsewhere.

An American missionary was among the 29 killed in an Al-Qaeda attack in the West African nation of Burkina Faso Friday night, an unprecedented strike in the capital illustrating the expanding reach of regional jihadists.

The currency was traded at around 6.57 to the dollar here Wednesday, on a par with Tuesday’s rate as well as that in the onshore Shanghai yuan market. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) rose $0.26 to $30.70 a barrel at 0108 ET.