The influence-peddling scandal, which led to the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye, is getting knottier. It took the dramatic turn when a court granted special prosecutor’s request for permission to arrest Samsung Group’s de facto leader Jay Y Lee over allegations of bribery and embezzlement. Lee is accused to have made payments of tens of millions of …

  DUBAI / Reuters Most stock markets in the Gulf fell on Tuesday with Qatar’s index hit particularly hard, but Saudi Arabia ended almost flat as petrochemical shares rebounded. Qatar’s stock index dropped 2.2 percent; all banking shares fell with Qatar National Bank retreating 2.9 percent. A monthly Reuters poll, published on Tuesday, found 62 percent of Middle Eastern fund …

  Bloomberg Behind the scenes of a stock market on a tear since Election Day are signs that investors have begun to worry about a rupture. They’re anxious before Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday, after a run-up that lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average every day since the president promised a “ phenomenal” plan to cut taxes. One …