Chipotle Mexican Grill’s stock is one of the top performers on the S&P 500 so far this year as investors continue to applaud the chain’s comeback under CEO Brian Niccol. Before coming to Chipotle, Niccol was chief executive of Yum Brands’ Taco Bell. Niccol’s strategy has focused on luring back customers with a loyalty program, more convenient ways to get its burrito bowls and new additions to Chipotle’s limited menu. To keep growing sales, Chipotle is working on even more new menu items, like qu

Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham will lend their voices to “Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina,” an animated Dungeons and Dragons series. Back in March, the folks behind web series “Critical Role” wanted to raise $750,000 to finance an animated Dungeons and Dragons digital special. By the close of the campaign 45 days later, “Critical Role” fans had shelled out more than $11.3 million, making the fund

Google is launching a new start-up accelerator focused on sustainable development and climate one day after an uproar from its employees over the company’s sustainability dealings. The company announced the new accelerator in a blog post as Google’s Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt announced it at the 2019 Web Summit. A separate climate petition from September, which garnered 2,000 signatures from Google employees, said Google in 2018, funded more than 100 members of Congress who voted a

Dow closes at a new record high of 31,274.92The Dow and Nasdaq finished at a record closing high. Stephen Weiss, chief investment officer of Short Hills Capital Partners LLC, Chris Retzler, co-manager of the Needham Growth Fund, and Jim Keenan, BlackRock global credit head, join CNBC’s “Closing Bell” to talk about the markets.

In the fourth quarter, Match expects revenue between $545 million and $555 million, which is lower than the $559.3 million expected, according to Refinitiv. The company reported 9.61 million average subscribers, exceeding the 9.57 million average subscribers analysts expected. The wellness company posted earnings of 68 cents per share, exceeding the earnings of 66 cents per share Wall Street expected. Revenue came in at $349 million, falling short of the $353 million expected, according to Refin

U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrive for a bilateral meeting during the G7 summit on August 25, 2019 in Biarritz, France. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a phone call, urged U.S. President Donald Trump to lift tariffs on goods including Scotch whisky, a Downing Street spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. Johnson also urged Trump not to impose tariffs on car exports, the statement added. Last month, the United States slapped a 25%-tariff o

Media Arts Lab, a unit within Omnicom Group agency TBWA that’s dedicated to Apple advertising, laid off several staffers Monday. Apple has a decades-long relationship with Omnicom Group agency TBWA, the agency behind the iconic “1984” commercial, which introduced Apple’s first personal Macintosh, and “Think Different.” Meanwhile, Apple’s often lauded in-house creative operations group has been adding to its ranks. But while brands seeking the success of Apple’s in-house agency might be inspired

That makes sense in theory, but presents a new problem: statewide polls are much less reliable than nationwide surveys. The simple solution to all of this undue focus on national polls is to simply focus more on the state-by-state polls , right? One year from Election Day 2020, America is still running the risk of being blind and deaf when it comes to several key aspects of our presidential election process. On the one hand, American voters are blinded to important facts because of the dominatin

All-new Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet Todd Haselton | CNBCAmazon’s latest version of the $149.99 Fire HD 10 tablet gives you almost everything you’d want out of a tablet for less than half of what you’d pay for an iPad. All-new Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet Todd Haselton | CNBCThe speed bump in earlier versions is noticeable. All-new Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet Todd Haselton | CNBCBattery life is really good, too. All-new Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet Todd Haselton | CNBCThe stereo speakers are good, but the posi

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., speaks during an event at the SpaceX launch facility in Cameron County, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. This is the holy grail,” Musk said, speaking with Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Force’s Space Pitch Day event. As Musk said, “It’s absolutely profound to have a reusable rocket.” Musk described Starship, the next-generation rocket SpaceX is developing, as the key to fully reusing a

The Match dating application is displayed on an Apple iPhone in an arranged photograph. The online dating company, which owns dating services including Match, Hinge and OKCupid, reported better-than-expected earnings for the quarter but forecast fourth-quarter revenue that was below analysts’ expectations. Match said it expects to see revenue between $545 million and $555 million, which is lower than consensus estimates of $559.3 million. For the third quarter, Match reported earnings of 51 cent

Facebook on Tuesday disclosed that as many as 100 software developers may have improperly accessed user data, including the names and profile pictures of people in specific groups on the social network. The company said it has removed this access and reached out to 100 developer partners who may have accessed the information. Facebook said that at least 11 developer partners accessed this type of data in the last 60 days. Facebook has been restricting software developer access to its user data f

Amazon announces new wireless earbuds, Echo Buds, at an event in Seattle on Sept. 25, 2019. CNBC | Todd HaseltonA hidden feature inside the Alexa software shows Amazon has at least considered enabling the Echo Buds earbuds to track workouts. This backs up CNBC’s earlier reporting that Amazon was planning to add fitness tracking features to the Echo Buds as part of an update code-named “Puget.” What we foundAmazon sent us a version of the Echo Buds to review a few weeks ago. You can’t yet track w

For Uber shareholders, Wednesday is a landmark day, presenting the first opportunity for most of them to sell stock since the company’s IPO six months ago. Of the roughly 1.7 billion Uber shares outstanding, about 1 billion have been locked up since the IPO in May. Wednesday is expiration day and, according to analysts at MKM Partners, about 90% of Uber’s stock will be available for sale, with some insiders still restricted from unloading portions of their stake. According to the company’s IPO p

As a possible trade deal gets closer, investors are less fearful of a recession and interest rates are in a new trend higher. “The one thing in Washington that’s affecting markets, and the only thing, is the trade deal,” said Andrew Brenner of National Alliance. … How quickly you resumed higher rates and how quickly the curve is steepening out tells me the trend is changing, and we’re moving to a very large trend higher in interest rates.” “I think a lot of this is optimism over the trade deal

“I think the first place will be where we make sure we really cut down on costs,” Goel told CNBC. Goel says the company is also trying to deepen its customer relationships and pressing the pause button on certain areas of expansion. Ameri-Source sits at the edge of deep-blue Allegheny County, but most employees commute from surrounding counties that backed Trump in 2016. Flooded with resumes for jobs that don’t existSince Trump’s inauguration, companies have added more than 400,000 manufacturing

Jamie Dimon is wading into the ongoing feud between Sen. Elizabeth Warren and American billionaires including money manager Leon Cooperman. Dimon, himself a billionaire thanks to his decades running some of the biggest U.S. lenders, was asked by CNBC’s Wilfred Frost if presidential hopeful Warren was anti-business. “You really have to ask her what she really means,” Dimon said in the interview, parts of which were scheduled to air on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “She uses some pretty harsh words, you

Some Robinhood users have been manipulating the stock-trading app to trade with what they’re calling “infinite leverage.” Through Robinhood Gold, the start-up’s subscription service, users can borrow money from the company to make trades. The backdoor was essentially free money and was being called “infinite leverage” and the “infinite money cheat code” by Reddit users who discovered it. It lets traders borrow money to buy stocks: the buyer puts down a percentage and the brokerage acts as the le

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn’t appear to be a big fan of Facebook’s new branding. In a tweet on Tuesday, Dorsey made fun of Facebook’s new corporate logo by calling out its all-caps design. Last week, mere minutes before Facebook’s earnings call, Dorsey announced Twitter would no longer allow political ads on its website. Without naming Zuckerberg, Dorsey took a jab at the Facebook CEO’s longstanding rhetoric around political ads, saying the move to ban ads on Twitter wasn’t related to free spe

In this Tuesday, July 10, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump is joined by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Sondland went on to say that the Ukrainian official had pressed him for details about exactly what Trump wanted in exchange for releasing the aid, which had been appropriated by Congress. one of the investigators asked Sondland, according to his October testimony released Tuesday..”Ultimately, yes,” Sondland replied. Giuliani and Trump wanted Ukraine to anno