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

Investors seemed to signal their approval for Scott Bessent as a safe choice to implement the president-elect’s economic ...

Jonathan Capehart is a Washington Post opinion writer who moonlights as host of “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart” on ...

Not surprisingly, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Finance Committee as well as the Senate Banking ...

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

Strategists regard hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, founder of Connecticut-based investment firm Key Square Group, as a ...

Key Square Group, the hedge fund started by Scott Bessent in 2015, has seen its assets under management drop sharply over the past six years on the back of a series of major losses ...

Investors like Scott Bessent because, as a hedge fund founder, he brings to the job an understanding of Wall Street and is ...

Scott Bessent is stepping out from behind decades of hedge-fund desks into the Treasury Secretary’s office with one goal: to ...

With the stock market surging Monday morning after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of hedge fund manager Scott ...

Donald Trump signals intent to nominate Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. Scott Bessent in that role could lead S&P 500 to 6,600 level.

Despite an early-week bid pin into a new record high, the Dow Jones is settling into a more reasonable stance for Monday, still trading on the high side but easing back from a record high near 44,800.