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

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

President-elect Trump's nominee to serve as Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has a 3-3-3 plan that aims to curb budget ...

Bessent was once described as the "protege" of billionaire George Soros, who he worked for over the course of decades.

The hedge fund investor predicted last year that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political fortunes were on the rise.

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

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

Joey Solitro is a freelance financial journalist at Kiplinger with more than a decade of experience. A longtime equity ...

Bessent, the 62-year-old founder of Key Square Group, has repeatedly backed the president-elect’s pro-tariff stance in a ...

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

President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire Scott Bessent as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of ...

Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has helped fundraise for Donald Trump, is the president-elect's choice to ...