Wall Street learns that Scott Bessent isn’t Steven Mnuchin
If Wall Street investors had hoped Scott Bessent would moderate Trump’s punishing trade policies, the Treasury secretary is ...
Treasury Secretary Bessent: We're Inviting Hunter Biden Whistleblowers To Investigate IRS
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explains the decision to hire IRS employees Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who blew the whistle on alleged political interference into investigations of Hunter Biden, ...
Bessent reveals how Trump will decide reciprocal tariffs
President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs could go well beyond matching import taxes imposed on U.S. goods by other nations, ...
Wall Street hoped Scott Bessent would keep Trump in check. He had other ideas.
The Treasury secretary's muted reassurances to financial markets shows there may be no one in the administration willing to ...
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says he's 'not at all' worried amid a stock market selloff
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he was "not at all" worried about the stock market, which has dipped multiple times ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says corrections are ‘healthy' and ‘normal.' Jim Cramer disagrees
Cramer also pushed back against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's claims that corrections are "healthy" and "normal." ...
Stock futures fall as Bessent dismisses market worries: ‘Corrections are healthy’
U.S. stock futures declined Sunday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he’s not worried about a market downturn, ...
Scott Bessent says the U.S. economy is detoxing but that doesn’t mean there will be a recession: ‘I’m not concerned about a little bit of volatility over three weeks’
But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was a hedge-fund chief prior to his political appointment, isn’t worried. “I’m not ...