Key Takeaways Scott Bessent, Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, was an economic advisor during his campaign and ...

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

When Donald Trump announced Friday that hedge fund manager Scott Bessent was his pick for Treasury secretary, there was a ...

The hedge fund manager will be responsible for steering President-elect Donald J. Trump’s unconventional economic agenda.

President-elect Trump selected billionaire investor Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department on Friday as the former ...

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

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

Bessent spent his career in finance and gives Wall Street an advocate for tax reform and deregulation. Some call his ...

If confirmed, Bessent will be tasked with implementing any tax cuts a Republican-controlled Congress may pursue.

Wall Street analysts believe Bessent will encourage Trump to roll back his aggressive plans for imposing tariffs on imported ...

If confirmed, Bessent would runn the department that manages the nation's finances as well as its tax agency, the Internal ...

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen money manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction and deregulation, to ...