Before the election, Bessent said he liked Trump’s economic agenda because it tied together economic policy with national security.

Newly confirmed U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is advocating a plan to impose universal tariffs on imports, according ...

Bessent, a hedge fund manager, becomes the nation’s 79th Treasury secretary. He will lead President Trump’s economic agenda.

The U.S. Senate could vote to confirm Republican President Donald Trump's nominee for treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, this ...

A brief standoff with Colombia holds important lessons for how future trade conflicts might unfold in the new Trump ...

President Donald Trump has been talking about tariffs for so long that it feels like we know exactly what’s coming. But we ...

New mixed messages this week about President Donald Trump's implementation of tariffs are flummoxing markets and businesses ...

President Donald Trump said he wants to impose across-the-board tariffs that are “much bigger” than 2.5%, the latest in a ...

A Victorian bushfire is threatening holidaymakers at a national park; Donald Trump vows “near future” tariffs, calls DeepSeek ...

When a group of Senate Democrats held a press conference Tuesday to denounce President Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, ...

The fast-growing popularity of the Chinese artificial intelligence software hit shares in tech giants like Nvidia, as Silicon ...

Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5 per cent ...