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Japan holds US tariff talks with Lutnick, eyes meeting with Bessent
Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa held talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on U.S. tariffs on ...
Bessent drops a key line about trade deadlines that investors should pay attention to
That looming U.S.-China trade deadline? Don’t think too much about it, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is counseling ...
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Scott Bessent debt plan has awkward historic echo
Outside the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. stands an imperious-looking statue honouring the institution’s longest-serving secretary. Albert Gallatin was the Swiss-born founding ...
Scott Bessent's Borrowing Plans: Should America Grab a Teaser Rate?
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says don't read too much into one month's inflation data
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in an interview on Bloomberg Television, said he hasn't looked at the CPI number that's ...
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Bessent visits Japan as clock winds down on tariff deal
Bessent, one of the three top U.S. tariff negotiators, landed in Japan on Thursday night, his first visit to the country since taking office. After meeting with Ishiba, the secretary and his ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says ‘formal process’ to find Jerome Powell’s successor has started
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that a “formal process” to find a successor for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome ...
South Africa's Kganyago asserts Africa's G20 agenda despite tariffs and Bessent absence
DURBAN (Reuters) - South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Wednesday that an "African agenda" including ...