The US president, once again, attacked the independent head of the United States' central bank, accusing him of not lowering ...

U.S. Treasury Scott Bessent is privately meeting with banking regulators as he pushes to streamline oversight and ease ...

US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick on Sunday said that tariff exemption on electronics were temporary and new duties wo ...

If Trump’s tariff policies continue to raise everyday costs while also crippling the stock market, voters will resoundingly reject Republicans next fall.

As we’ve been reporting, US Vice-President JD Vance says there is a “good chance” that the US and UK will come to a mutually ...

Scott Bessent is having a moment. “Wall Street’s Best Hope to End Trump’s Global Trade War Is One of Its Own,” says The Wall Street Journal. “Bessent Emerges As Man of the Hour Trade Negotiator,” says ...

The treasury secretary wants to build a safe space for volatile US government debt on banks’ balance sheets. It may not be so ...

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But they weren’t “afraid,” as Trump asserted. Rather, Bessent made a trillion-dollar bet on the bond markets, and in the long ...

European Union finance ministers expressed interest on Saturday in the idea of a joint defence fund that would buy and own ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emerged from this week’s market ructions as a perhaps-unexpected lead trade negotiator, ...