President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China ...

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

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors demonstrated a belief that hedge fund manager Scott Bessent will be a prudent force as ...

Scott Bessent is a hedge fund manager who investors believe will balance Trump's economic promises with fiscal reality as ...

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 ...

The United States is closing out the year with a lot of red ink as the national debt surpassed $36T for the first time.

Out billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent will be nominated by Donald Trump to be secretary of the treasury. If confirmed, he will be the first out LGBTQ+ Cabinet secretary ever nominated by a ...

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 ...

Bessent has been openly in favor of a strong dollar and has supported tariffs, suggesting any pullback in the currency might ...

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

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

Yields on 10-year treasuries slipped to their lowest in nearly a month after Trump's selection of a top cabinet post allayed ...