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Despite the omicron variant, travelers are making plans to hit the road this year, whether the industry is ready for them or not.

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

The CDC last month warned against all cruise ship travel.

"Viacom is a good value play in a world that suddenly cares about value," the "Mad Money" host said.

"It's hard to process what's actually happening right now, which is most people are going to get Covid," acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said.

There are growing calls in Europe for the coronavirus to be treated as an endemic illness, like the flu, as politicians ache for a return to normality.

Gov. Phil Murphy said the state is seeing nearly 35,000 new Covid cases daily and in the past two weeks more than 10,000 residents have been hospitalized.

Omicron patients at Kaiser Permanente Southern California were 74% less likely to end up in ICUs and 91% less likely to die than delta patients, a study found.

Natural gas has started 2022 on a bang with a gain of nearly 30%.

"The sheer volume of cases is putting a burden on health-care systems," said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on Covid-19.

The cost of eating at home is getting more expensive at a faster pace than dining out.

MLB and Apple are in talks to stream live regular-season games during the week.

Online prices increased 3.1% in December compared with the prior year and rose 0.8% month over month, according to Adobe Analytics.

Domino's Pizza expects soaring food prices in 2022, but reiterated its long-term sales outlook.

U.S. stock futures were picking up steam higher Wednesday after another hot but expected inflation report.

These are the stocks posting the largest moves before the bell.

The U.K. could be one of the first countries to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to one leading scientist.

Delta late last year cut its Covid sick leave policy in half to five days off with pay protection that doesn't require staff to use days in their sick banks.

"The charts, as interpreted by Carolyn Boroden, suggest the tech-laden Nasdaq 100 really was due for a bounce," CNBC's Jim Cramer said.

"A stock market that dies by the bond market's sword can also prosper from it," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday after all three major U.S. stock indexes rose.