Bessent is the founder of the hedge fund Key Square Management, which Forbes reports had less than $600 million in assets as of the end of 2023. The South Carolina native and Yale graduate is a member ...

President-elect Donald Trump picked billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as his choice for the secretary of the ...

The longtime hedge fund manager said he is focused on making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, as well as eliminating taxes on ...

All together, the billionaires tapped for the Trump administration are worth at least $344 billion – higher than the GDP of ...

Scott Bessent, the hedge fund manager tapped to lead the Treasury Department, revealed that his top priority will be ...

US stocks rose Monday, with the Dow finishing at a fresh record as markets greeted Donald Trump's pick for treasury secretary ...

Donald Trump has nominated hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary, dealing a blow to protectionist forces in ...

The AUD/USD pair surrenders a majority of its intraday gains after facing selling pressure near the intraday high of 0.6550 in Monday’s North American session. The Aussie pair drops even though the US ...

Gura: You covered the Treasury Department when Steven Mnuchin was running it, and he was there, as you said, for all four years of Donald Trump's first term. If Scott Bessent is confirmed, what is ...

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump names RFK Jr., Pete ...

Bessent isn’t the first hedge fund manager to take on the role of Treasury secretary; that honor went to Steven Mnuchin in ...

A 2017 hedge fund presentation shows how Scott Bessent might go about forming his views on fiscal policy should he be ...