Better prepared: A woman sells fruits at a market in Jakarta. Former finance minister Chatib says businesses today are better prepared to manage currency volatility, dismissing fears that a weaker ...

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As health officials continue monitoring a hantavirus outbreak tied to the Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, many people are asking the same question: Could this spread more broadly? The ...

The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread among people without direct contact. By Apoorva Mandavilli Close, sustained ...

Oracle's 5-year CDS has been sitting near 200 bps since the spring, breaking above its 2008 financial crisis peak. AI infrastructure debt is moving into retail retirement accounts through target-date ...

With at least one U.S. hantavirus case confirmed in a passenger who came from the cruise ship at the center of the outbreak, how easily is the virus spread, how does it compare to COVID-19 and where ...

A Burmese python named Harriet has challenged scientific understanding of the species' reproductive cycle. Harriet produced six clutches of eggs over seven reproductive cycles, a much higher rate than ...

In the chronicles of the natural world, Harriet is an evolutionary success story. For Florida, the nearly 13-foot-long Burmese python is an ecological nightmare. Called the "most interesting Burmese ...