Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner, and Germany's first three-way coalition government is now history.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to lead the country with a minority government, but the opposition is calling for an immediate no-confidence vote.

Under rules created to prevent the kind of coalition chaos that hastened the end of Germany's interwar democracy, the chancellor largely controls the pace of events: the opposition can only push him out earlier if they can find a majority for a specific alternative chancellor,

Could Germany finally loosen the purse strings? Some investors are betting so following the collapse of Germany's governing coalition Wednesday over economic policy disagreements. Here's how markets r