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Scott Bessent draws on hedge fund instincts to help rescue yen

Most recent Treasury Secretary predecessors came from what is known as the sell-side of finance, but Scott Bessent, with a decades-long hedge fund career, is different.

Wall Street turns on Scott Bessent

The Treasury secretary’s credibility as a steward of U.S. financial markets is under threat. Wall Street celebrated when President Donald Trump tapped Scott Bessent to lead the Tre...

Scott Bessent Might Have Started The Bitcoin Bull Cycle

The Heat on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Grows

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plans to intervene in bond markets have drawn widespread criticism, including from a prominent former mentor.

Scott Bessent is using moves from his hedge fund days to prop up Japan’s yen—and America’s $40 trillion national debt

The man who once shorted currencies is now propping them up. “He takes risks that other Treasury Secretaries over the past two generations wouldn't.”

Scott Bessent Faces G20 Diplomacy Test

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faces a major test of his economic diplomacy skills this week as he presses finance leaders from the G20 major economies to shrink global trade im...

Scott Bessent Presses Senate On 'Floor-Ready' CLARITY Act, Tom Lee Agrees: 'This Needs to Be Passed'

The Humbling of Scott Bessent

Thirty-odd years ago, the Treasury Secretary was one of the speculators who broke the Bank of England in a famous trade. Now he’s on the other side of the markets, struggling to co...

Scott Bessent Wants to Push Long-Term Yields Lower. His $4 Billion Test Starts Now

The U.S. Treasury is set to double the size of its buyback operations for long-dated bonds to at least $4 billion per operation, up from a $2 billion ceiling.

Scott Bessent takes on bond vigilantes in $32tn Treasury market

Wall Street investors say move to buy more long-term US debt is a ‘band-aid on a bullet hole’

Did Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Just Save the Bond Market? Probably Not — Here’s What Traders Need to Know.

Scott Bessent fired a currency bazooka, but global finance still looks like a ‘giant Jenga tower’ propped up by a Japane...

"Now traders are watching the 'yen carry trade,' where cheap yen borrowing funds bets on higher-yielding assets worldwide, and wondering if it’s about to blow up."

Can Bessent’s ‘Big Tool Kit’ Calm Bond Investors?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has vowed to step up efforts to restore calm to the debt markets. So far, it’s not working out that way.

Japanese bond auctions may challenge Scott Bessent’s yield stabilization efforts

Global financial stability hinges on Japan's bond market, as shifts could disrupt US Treasury yields, complicating debt management strategies. The post Japanese bond auctions may c...

Bossing the bond market around never works

Despite Scott Bessent’s efforts, investors worry something is up

Treasury Secretary Bessent Says CLARITY Act Is at the ‘1-Yard Line’

Scott Bessent has said that the CLARITY Act is at the “1-yard line” and urged Congress to pass it before recess, even as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand faces backlash from progressive...

Wall Street Loved Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh. Not Anymore.

We are approaching a credibility crisis with Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh leading our economy.

Bessent just put a major bank on the chopping block

Scott Bessent just launched Operation Economic Outcast against Iran. Treasury hit nearly 60 entities, individuals and vessels tied to Iranian oil, shadow fleets and financial netwo...

‘I am the house now’: Scott Bessent dares currency markets to move against him

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

Don't Poke the Bear: Scott Bessent Brutalizes Robert Reich Over 'K-Shaped Economy'

Bessent becomes most interventionist Treasury chief in decades

Expanded bond buybacks and yen purchases mark an unusually activist approach, but widening deficits could limit its effectiveness

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Urges Lawmakers to Vote on Clarity Act, Quotes Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin Magazine Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Urges Lawmakers to Vote on Clarity Act, Quotes Satoshi Nakamoto The Treasury Secretary slammed Democrats for holding back the lan...

The $1.2 Trillion Reason Scott Bessent Just Bought Japanese Yen

Financial markets are tightly connected, even when those connections aren’t obvious. A currency move in Tokyo can ripple into mortgage rates in … Source

Scott Bessent Emphasizes Back to Basics, Iran Sanctions at G20 Finance Opening  

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters the G20 was getting back to basics ahead of a full day of meetings at the G20 Finance Minsters meeting in Asheville, NC taking...