President Trump’s decision to nominate Scott Bessent as the new US Treasury Secretary will put a macro hedge fund manager at the heart of US policy for the first time.
The Key Square Group founder was eventually nominated after seeing off the leftfield choice Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, and Marc Rowan, Apollo Global Management CEO, who emerged as a late contender.
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