Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn spar in a televised debate just six days before the general election.

The US president holds ownership interests in golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland

Brexit and coronavirus have prompted drive for improving trade resilience

Sotheby’s has gone under the hammer for $3.7bn ending 31 years of public ownership, with the venerable auction house sold to Patrick Drahi, billionaire founder of the European telecoms group Altice. Arash Massoudi discusses the sale and what it means for the art market with Harriet Agnew and Melanie Gerlis.

Contributors: Suzanne Blumsom, executive editor, Arash Massoudi, corporate finance and deals editor, Harriet Agnew, FT Paris correspondent, and Melanie Gerlis, FT art market columnist. Producer: Fiona Symon

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K-Pop has never been more popular. However, a recent string of high profile controversies including a rape conviction and two suicides have sullied the image of the Korean cultural export. Edward White talks to Patricia Nilsson about what makes a K-Pop star, why the singers are under so much pressure, and what the industry means to the country’s economy.

Contributors: Edward White, Seoul correspondent and Patricia Nilsson, Media reporter. Producer: Persis Love

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Regime claims 8 people died in plot connected to foiled coup attempt launched from Colombia

US regulator cautions against using chloroquine outside of hospitals or clinical trials

Biotech group’s shares have soared this year on hopes drug could be used to treat coronavirus

Decline leads to a drop in wholesale prices as businesses close

European aerospace group confirms it will slash output of popular A320 single-aisle jet

Paper released by UK regulators homes in on tactic known as latency arbitrage

In 16 years of columns on business, the only constant has been disruptive innovation

Grounded travellers are facing downgrades but some airlines are rewarding loyalty

Move in response to drop in prices and demand and honours unofficial pact with Opec

State utility Eskom removed power to stave off grid collapse

Restrictions have hampered miner’s ability to move money out of the country

Two Gulf companies shipped jet fuel to renegade general Khalifa Haftar, documents show

World’s second-largest diamond miner cites disruption along the supply chain

Dig downs and loft extensions may increase the value of a home, but it’s hard to borrow against this

Sharp falls across financial markets in March have caused large drop in aggregate funded ratio

‘Drastic revisit’ of outlook at French bank as dividend cuts and cancellations hit equities trading

The men and women from occupied Europe who helped defeat Hitler

Billionaire CQS trader hurt by exposure to default-ridden energy sector

Brexit and election weigh on sentiment as builders suffer eighth month of contraction

FTSE 250 housebuilder also takes charge for fire safety review after Grenfell tragedy

ECB intends to resist court injunction to justify its sovereign bond purchases

NetSaver easy access account pays 3.16 per cent on savings

A third of self-employed reported working reduced hours during the first two weeks of lockdown

Price in local currencies of commodities such as copper and coffee has surged

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

Researchers at NYU have identified hundreds of groups of Instagram users, some with thousands of members, that systematically exchange likes and comments in order to game the service’s algorithms and boost visibility. In the process, they also trained machine learning agents to identify whether a post has been juiced in this way. “Pods,” as they’ve […]

Byju’s, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, is in talks to raise as much as $400 million in fresh capital at a $10 billion valuation, said three people familiar with the matter. The additional capital would be part of the […]

Democratic presidential contenders cling on over early hurdles

A big changing of the guard is underway at one of the world’s biggest and iconic names in telecoms and media: AT&T today announced that Randall Stephenson will be stepping down as the chairman and CEO of the telco, and he will be replaced by John Stankey, currently the COO. The change is effective on […]

As coronavirus-hit financial markets continue to flip-flop in the wake of bad news followed by pockets of hope, a startup that aims to introduce ordinary consumers to investing has raised a big round of funding. New York-based Stash, which provides a mobile-first route to managing money through investment — as well as retirement, custodial and […]

Suppliers that exploited cheaper labour hit by big wage bills for shuttered plants

A series of big bankruptcies is unlikely but debt workouts will slow economic recovery

Our household income has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic

The Indian government has said that its contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu “by design” fetches the location data of its 90 million users and allows them to view the concentration of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in their vicinity. New Delhi issued the statement after France-based security researcher Baptiste Robert found what he […]

A pacy, personal but unrevealing account of David Cameron’s government

Before lockdown, my desire to eat Hobnobs outweighed my desire to be thinner. Not any more

Apple’s long-rumored Mac ARM chip transition could happen as early as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that Apple is currently working on three Mac processors based on the design of the A14 system-on-a-chip that will power the next-generation iPhone. The first of the Mac versions will greatly exceed […]

Technology means small shareholders need not — and should not — be excluded from emergency equity fundraisings

LinkedIn has cornered the market when it comes to putting your own professional profile online and using it to network for jobs, industry connections and professional development. But when it comes to looking at a chart of the people, and specifically the leadership teams, who make up organizations more holistically, the Microsoft-owned network comes up […]

Samsung Electronics announced today that its blood pressure monitoring app for Galaxy Watches has been approved by South Korean regulators. Called the Samsung Health Monitor, the app will be available for the Galaxy Watch Active2 during the third quarter, at least in South Korea, and added to upcoming Galaxy Watch devices. TechCrunch has contacted Samsung […]

Apple’s long-rumored Mac ARM chip transition could happen as early as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that Apple is currently working on three Mac processors based on the design of the A14 system-on-a-chip that will power the next-generation iPhone. The first of the Mac versions will greatly exceed […]

India has emerged as one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the last decade, reporting growth each quarter even as handset shipments slowed or declined elsewhere globally. But the world’s second largest smartphone is beginning to feel the coronavirus heat, too. The Indian smartphone market grew by a modest 4% year-over-year in the quarter […]

Backblaze today announced that its B2 Cloud Storage service is now API-compatible with Amazon’s S3 storage service. Backblaze started as an affordable cloud backup service, but over the last few years, the company has also taken its storage expertise and launched the developer-centric B2 Cloud Storage service, which promises to be significantly cheaper than similar […]

Apple’s long-rumored Mac ARM chip transition could happen as early as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that Apple is currently working on three Mac processors based on the design of the A14 system-on-a-chip that will power the next-generation iPhone. The first of the Mac versions will greatly exceed […]

The Indian government has said that its contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu “by design” fetches the location data of its 90 million users and allows them to view the concentration of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in their vicinity. New Delhi issued the statement after France-based security researcher Baptiste Robert found what he […]