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By Daniel Shvartsman

Investing.com – Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:) shares rose 8.2% in post-earnings trading after the company met revenue expectations and earnings came in well ahead of .

The restaurant operator reported $1.96B in revenue, in line with analyst estimates and 24% growth on last year. Adjusted earnings were $5.58/share, ahead of $5.29 estimates. Diluted earnings were $4.69/share.

The company also posted an impressive 15.2% comparable restaurant sales increase. Digital sales only grew 3.8%, while operating margins grew to 8.1% from a prior 7.3%. Chipotle opened 78 new restaurants in the quarter.

“2021 was an outstanding year

By Alvaro Murillo

SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Costa Ricans on Sunday began casting ballots in an election with a record 25 candidates vying to succeed outgoing President Carlos Alvarado, but the voting is unlikely to produce an outright winner and a second-round is scheduled for April.

No candidate, including former President Jose Maria Figueres, is expected to win more than 40% of votes,

By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday for the first time conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministries of lector and catechist on women, roles that previously many had carried out without institutional recognition.

He conferred the ministries at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, where, in an apparent reference to

By Fabian Cambero and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile’s leftist President-elect Gabriel Boric unveiled his first cabinet on Friday, throwing markets and investors a bone with a moderate pick of current central bank head Mario Marcel for the Andean country’s finance ministry role.

Boric also named Izkia Siches, a prominent doctor and part of his campaign team, as future interior minister and deputy, as well as lawmaker Marcela Hernando in the key role of

By Katanga Johnson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the U.S. securities regulator wraps up a draft of a landmark new climate change rule, environmental campaigners and activist investors want it to require companies to disclose not only their own greenhouse gas emissions but those generated by their suppliers and other partners.

Corporate groups, meanwhile, are pushing for a narrower rule that will make

By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -A six-year cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has identified a surprising suspect in the mystery of how the Nazis found the hiding place of the famous diarist in 1944.

Anne and seven other Jews were discovered by the Nazis on Aug. 4 of that year, after they had hid for nearly two years in a secret annex above