In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.

Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent survived an internal squabble over the role of Treasury secretary, a key position that ...

The pick of Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary has changed the market's mood, says Kit Juckes, chief currency strategist at ...

With Scott Bessent, consumers eyeing prices and interest rates are getting a Treasury secretary pick who is deeply aware of ...

Scott Bessent, the founder of the Connecticut-based hedge fund Key Square Group, had been making a full-court press for the ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Saturday chose Brooke Rollins, his former White House domestic policy adviser, to helm the ...

Bessent’s reputation is that he is a “fiscal hawk,” and his stated goal is to cut the federal budget deficit roughly in half ...

President-elect Donald Trump has selected television personalities, former Democrats, a wrestling executive and traditional ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary operates a hedge fund that reaped a massive windfall two years ago ...

Strategists regard hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, founder of Connecticut-based investment firm Key Square Group, as a ...

Trump ally Elon Musk publicly threw his weight behind Howard Lutnick for Treasury secretary. Trump went with Scott Bessent ...

From his years working for George Soros to his role as a key economic advisor to Trump, Bessent has extensive if ...