Amazon, Google, and Nvidia are among those who struck deals during Trump's visit to the Middle East, his first major overseas trip of his second term.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until this year had a $10 million US bounty on his head.

Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destination on his first major foreign trip, heading to Saudi Arabia because the kingdom was ready to make big investments in U.S. companies.It’s not even that the Trump family has fast-growing business ties in the Middle East that run deep and offer the potential of vast profits.

Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and attended a US-Saudi investment forum along with Elon Musk and other top CEOs.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump opened his four-day Middle East trip on Tuesday by paying a visit to Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for talks on U.S. efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program, end the war in Gaza, hold down oil prices and more.

BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Northern Trust Asset Management, Neuberger Berman and I Squared Capital signed preliminary agreements with the roughly $925 billion wealth fund to invest in its efforts to develop a series of new investment strategies focused on Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and North Africa region.

The oil barons of the Middle East have been trying to diversify out of carbon fuels and into other parts of the global economy for decades, but artificial

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was scheduled to attend a luncheon in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday to kick off President Donald Trump’s multi-day Gulf tour, where the president hopes to secure major investment deals worth over $1 trillion.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto ruler, warmly greeted Trump as he stepped off Air Force One at King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital and kicked off his Middle East tour.

President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East tour with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, vowing a continued partnership between Washington and Riyadh.