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

"I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States," Trump said ...

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

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

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

President-elect Trump nominated Scott Bessent, the founder and CEO of global macro investment firm Key Square Group, for ...

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

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

The Treasury Secretary is a high-level Cabinet position charged with advising the president on matters related to financial, ...

President-elect Donald Trump has selected investor Scott Bessent as his nominee for Treasury secretary, putting forth a ...

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

President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice for a new Treasury secretary; the purported frontrunner for the job is ...