The mostrecentupdate to the Index shows the sharpest year-to-year rise in clean-energy patents since Heslin began tracking clean-energy innovation trends in 2002.
The virus had infected 44 people worldwide as of last week, most of them in the Middle East, according to the World Health Organization's mostrecentupdate Thursday.
The forecast, contained in its mostrecent East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, is 0.3% higher than its last estimate for the period and is in line with increasingly optimistic consensus views.
Diageo ( DEO - news - people ), whose shares slipped 2.7% on Wednesday in London after it revealed in a trading update that underlying sales had fallen by 6% in its mostrecent quarter.