Rebuilding America: Arizona grocery stores don't face a lot of reopening challenges as they never closed during the outbreak. They will continue to adjust. Supermarket chains and other grocery retailers in Arizona aren't preparing for the reopening of the economy like a lot of other businesses. That's because food stores already had to make significant adjustments on the run, as they never shut down during the coronavirus outbreak. Stores already have installed social-distancing floor markers...

Rebuilding America: Banks will now have "a grocery-store look, with sneeze guards at teller stations and decals on the floor telling people where to wait." The banking industry never closed during the coronavirus outbreak, providing essential financial services to individuals and businesses despite shutting down some branches and reducing hours and services at others. The industry will continue to provide help indefinitely, with some temporary and permanent changes in the works. "For the time...

A lawsuit filed by a Florida pension plan alleges that Phoenix-based Grand Canyon Education Inc. artificially inflated its stock price through financial dealings with a university that it continued to control even after selling the institution. The suit by the Hialeah Employees' Retirement System said the corporation purportedly spun off Grand Canyon University as an independent institution yet continued to funnel expenses to and collect disproportionately high revenue from the school. The...

(Photo: Michael Chow/The Republic) The Phoenix-based maker of zero-emission heavy trucks Nikola Corp. will become a publicly traded corporation later this week, possibly worth $11 billion or more, if a vote to approve its merger with another company succeeds as expected. More than $700 million in proceeds from the reverse-merger transaction with VectoIQ Acquisition Corp. will allow Nikola to continue research in zero-pollution electric and hydrogen vehicles, break ground on a new Arizona...

As Arizona and other states gradually reopen their economies, grim headlines will persist for months. But better news may not be far off. Arizona State University economists are predicting a recession of three to nine months, followed by a swift recovery if consumer spending — bolstered by heavy federal stimulus — kicks in as they expect. "We're going to see some startling numbers," said Dennis Hoffman, an ASU economics professor, citing what he expects will be annualized drops in national...