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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

President Donald Trump is carrying out his immigration crackdown nationwide, with over 1,000 arrests reported by ICE on ...

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