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Results of a private survey released on Wednesday showed China's manufacturing activity 50.1 in March as factories began to come online amid a coronavirus outbreak.

A restaurant in Singapore once again takes the top spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurant List. Helmed by French chef Julien Royer, the French-Asian inspired Odette was also named the 18th best restaurant in the world in 2019.

Major automakers are due to report U.S. sales this week, giving investors a better grasp of the damage from coronavirus containment measures, which have shut both dealerships and factories across the country.

As of Tuesday, more than 850,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, resulting in at least 41,000 deaths.

"Chef Boyardee was growing nicely before COVID. It's doing very well now," Conagra Brands CEO Sean Connolly said.

"I think we will come out of this strong both as an economy and as a company," Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora said in a "Mad Money" interview.

Grocery employees at Whole Foods, Instacart and Trader Joe's are calling on their companies to do more to protect workers.

Of the nine ships, the one getting the most attention is the Carnival-owned MS Zaandam which has been at sea for 15 days.

"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he's giving his answers to callers' stock questions at rapid speed.

Macy's is being removed from the S&P 500 Index and replaced by air conditioning company Carrier Global, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, which oversees the index.

The "Mad Money" host said investors should "stick with the staples, the utilities and the stay-at-home tech stocks.

Maine became the latest state Tuesday to order residents to remain at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens will be converted into a temporary hospital with 350 beds for non-ICU patients from Elmhurst Hospital.

Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer, Sherrod Brown and Ron Wyden called on Mnuchin to defend the terms of a deal he helped negotiate.

Americans are still "in a very difficult situation," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.

"One of the things we need to learn from this is we have to invest in our public health infrastructure, invest in our science ... so things like this never happen again," Dr. Ian Lipkin told CNBC.

Four days after signing an unprecedented $2 trillion relief bill to blunt the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, the president on Tuesday called for the U.S. to spend another $2 trillion on a massive infrastructure package.

According to models used by the state, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he expects the COVID-19 outbreak to peak there some time in May 2020. To fight the pandemic, the state has asked licensed health professionals to raise their hands to work via a new Health Corps site, which scored 25,000 sign-ups in its first day.

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