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Very few people can move financial markets with their tweets, but like it or not, President-elect Donald Trump is one of them. And while you can’t do anything to prevent the madness, you can keep up with it using a new tool from Trigger Finance.  Originally a class project at Cornell Tech, …

Even on bread-and-butter fiscal issues like Social Security and Medicare, the candidates managed to trade insults. Clinton suggested that Trump would avoid paying taxes if she was able to raise the maximum taxable cap on annual earnings, which is $118,500 this year and $127,200 next year, for Social Security payroll …

In a series of answers to questions posted on Apple’s internal employee info service Apple Web today, CEO Tim Cook commented to employees on some hot-button topics. We obtained some of the answers to interesting questions about a few topics, including the fate of the Mac — but more on that …

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking a page from his grandfather’s playbook in using golf to form ties with an American leader. In talks with Donald Trump in New York on Thursday, Abe presented the real estate mogul with a golf club (Japanese media said it was a driver). …

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum has picked up two of the highest-flying and hardest-driving executives in the tech industry with the addition of Uber Technologies’ Travis Kalanick and SpaceX’s Elon Musk. Announced today, the two appointees join a board headed by private equity titan Stephen Schwarzman, who …

One of Donald Trump’s major campaign promises was to levy extremely high tariffs against countries he feels are taking advantage of us, like China. In the past, president-elect Trump has floated the idea of setting what he called “defensive” tariffs of up to 45% on Chinese goods, while simultaneously labeling …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Anna Wintour, editor in chief of US Vogue, is one of the most powerful women in the media Tensions are simmering between the US magazines Vogue and Teen Vogue, and the country’s president-elect Donald Trump. Last week, legendary Vogue editor Anna Wintour, considered one of …

Media caption‘Just friends’ – Trump hosts Kanye West US rapper Kanye West has held a meeting with Donald Trump – with the president-elect saying the pair discussed “life”. They posed for pictures after the Trump Tower get-together on Tuesday. The reason for the meeting was not made clear, and neither …

Image copyright AP Image caption Rick Perry at Trump Tower Donald Trump is expected to pick ex-Texas Governor Rick Perry as his energy secretary, a department whose name he famously forgot in a TV debate. The nomination puts Mr Perry in charge of a department he proposed abolishing in a …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption “Rex Tillerson’s career is the embodiment of the American dream,” Mr Trump said President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for US secretary of state. In a statement, Mr Trump praised Mr Tillerson, 64, as among …