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THE GOVERNMENT HASN'T EXACTLY nailed its response to the coronavirus crisis. The mistakes and miscues started with the president, but a host of critical entities have failed to contain the [...]

It costs three times more to build a subway station in New York than in Paris. We'd be living in a whole different kind of city if we could change [...]

'WE'VE SEEN DEMAND GROWTH flatten recently with the rise of covid-19 cases,' Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told investors during the company's latest earnings call on July 14. Delta [...]

MARCH 10 WAS JUST a few days ago, but it already feels very far away--before the NBA season was suspended, Tom Hanks tested positive, and a national state of emergency [...]

SIX MONTHS INTO THE PANDEMIC, I've developed a new gymless fitness routine that is, under the circumstances, reasonably robust. My husband and I bought a Peloton bike. I do at-home [...]

The effects of the coronavirus outbreak have been dire throughout the U.S. economy. About 16.8 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the three weeks that ended April 4, a [...]

GLO:NYO/13apr20:13n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl THE EFFECTS OF the coronavirus outbreak have been dire throughout the U.S. economy. NO. 2 Netflix GLO:NYO/13apr20:14n5.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl WIDESPREAD STAY-AT-HOME orders could not have come at a better time for Netflix. Regeneron developed antibody drugs that boost the immune system to help combat Ebola and MERS, and the company says it should have one against the coronavirus ready for human trials early this summer. [Extracted from the article]

The company doubled itsmembership base and also reported that average usage persubscriber doubled--Peloton subscribers (which can behouseholds) completed an average of 24.7 workouts permonth, up from 12 in the same period last year. It'sno surprise that Peloton's offline competitors are movinginto the online space: Barry's Bootcamp offers at-homeclasses starting every 15 minutes, gyms like Equinox arestreaming classes online, and Lululemon acquired thehome-fitness brand Mirror in July for $500 million. Youcould get around the dumbbell shortage by shopping on thesecondary market, but you had to pay: Dumbbells fromRogue cost about $1.25 per pound if they're in stock(good luck), but I paid over $2 per pound on eBay this summer. [Extracted from the article]

Since I don't think I can out-smart the market, my usual investing strategy is just to take the money I don't need to use right now and park it in low-fee, broad-market equity index funds; set it and forget it, knowing the equity markets are likely to be a lot higher when I retire than they are now. Allison Schrager-who describes herself as a "militant efficient-markets person" and therefore should not really have a view on whether stocks are too high or too low-also told me she thinks stocks are too low. He told me he thought stocks had fallen more than was reasonable-but then admitted to me that he was holding cash out of the market that he'd previously intended to invest in stocks because he thought he would be able to buy later at a lower price. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses business of restaurant Chipotle including its financial performance in large part to online-ordering initiatives, its plan to open a second pilot Chipotlane, a digital-only drive-through, and views of Brian Niccol, chief executive officer (CEO) of Chipotle, on the same.