{"id":89992,"date":"2024-11-25T01:28:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=89992"},"modified":"2024-11-25T01:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:28:21","slug":"donald-trump-chooses-hedge-fund-executive-scott-bessent-for-treasury-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2024\/donald-trump-chooses-hedge-fund-executive-scott-bessent-for-treasury-secretary.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump chooses hedge fund executive Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) President-elect Donald Trump signaled Friday his intention to nominate hedge fund executive Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, in a move that puts a seasoned market pro and a close Trump loyalist in a critical economic position. The founder of Key Square Group had been considered a strong favorite for the position along with a few other close contenders including former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and private equity executive Marc Rowan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/22\/donald-trump-chooses-hedge-fund-executive-scott-bessent-for-treasury-secretary.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) President-elect Donald Trump signaled Friday his intention to nominate hedge fund executive Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, in a move that puts a seasoned market pro and a close Trump loyalist in a critical economic position. The founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89993,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89992\/revisions\/89993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}