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Asian shares tumble with South Korea’s Kospi down nearly 10%Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.It’s a gloomy start to the week as attacks between the US and Iran in the Gulf continue. Tehran said it had closed the strait of Hormuz, while Donald Trump insisted the key shipping passage remained open and US officials said 20 ships were escorted through the waterway in the past 24 hours.For now, we remain hopeful that

These financiers want to remodel the UK into a form that suits them – one that could threaten to erode the barriers between crime and businessThis coming Tuesday, the government’s representation of the people bill comes back to the House of Commons for its third reading. It bundles up a multitude of measures, including an extension of the franchise to 16- and 17-year-olds and welcome changes to voter registration. But thanks to the continuing furore around Nigel Farage and his extremel

Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figuresElon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, according to the billionaire X owner’s father, who was with the British far-right activist in Moscow as he encouraged anti-migration protests in Britain.Robinson – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – appeared last month in Moscow, from where he issued calls for supporters to take to the streets after a knife attack i

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsThe sudden appearance of Apollo on the scene follows multiple rounds of talks between easyJet and Castlelake. EasyJet had told investors earlier this week that it had reached an agreement in principle with the firm at £6.90 per share. Apollo has said today regarding its chunkier offer:EasyJet management’s operational and commercial ambitions can be substantially accelerated via the access to incremental capital and longer-term b

Business secretary Peter Kyle says asset managers should feel a patriotic duty to make the UK a successBusiness live – latest updatesThe business secretary, Peter Kyle, has warned UK pension funds to “get off their high horses” and invest in Britain or be forced to do so by law.Expressing frustration at the level of investment in British companies after years of government initiatives, Kyle said the UK’s biggest asset managers “should feel a patriotic duty in making Britain a success”.

Brent crude dips slightly below $78 a barrel; most Asian stock markets bounce backBritain’s second-biggest drugmaker GSK has also taken a hit from recent drug failures.The Californian biotech Alector has said that GSK has ended their neuroscience collaboration covering ​two experimental antibody drugs, after both drug candidates suffered setbacks in clinical trials.The CARDIO-TTRansform trial was designed to examine the role of Wainua, a gene silencer treatment, on top of today’s stand

Whenever major reform is proposed the media, big business and Westminster quickly conclude it’s too expensive and disruptive. This doesn’t bode well for Andy BurnhamIn an old, often anxious and conservative country, the perception of risk is a potent political weapon. If a policy or a project for reforming the UK seems too risky, or can be made to seem so by its opponents, then it can usually be quickly killed off. It can be added to the pile of possible futures that never occurred.In