US Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson seems to be almost at variance with President-elect Donald Trump over key foreign policy issues, which he would face as America’s top diplomat. At his confirmation hearing, the former Exxon Mobil Corp CEO, under intense questioning on US-Russian relations and other foreign issues, called Russia a danger and vowed to protect America’s …

  There’s a big threat to Germany’s traditional political parties ahead of this year’s general election, and it isn’t immigration or populism. It’s the inflation eating away at Germans’ savings as the European Central Bank keeps interest rates near zero. Germans, from serious economists to tabloid writers, have long decried the ECB’s lax monetary policy. With its stated goal of …

  An entire library could be filled with books about how the bright minds in Silicon Valley find and fund the next Google or Facebook. But there are four basic steps to startup investing: 1) Persuade people to give you lots of money. 2) Use that money to buy shares in young companies. 3) Cash out those shares in an …