US private equity investor will remain committed to Gulf even as war rages with Iran.

No one learned anything new at a glitzy event in Miami, but US-Saudi ties were reinforced.

Saudi’s US investment conference shows Gulf cash still attracts western finance, even if execs are holding off going back to the region.

Iran’s attacks on Gulf countries are serious and disrupting, but this makes it even more important to meet, said Richard Attias, CEO of the FII Institute.

At least two tankers have passed through the strait while impersonating ships scrapped long ago, as Iran continues to exert a tight hold on traffic through the waterway.

Trump’s scheduled attendance at a Saudi investment conference in Miami this week could solidify the Gulf country’s ties to the US administration, despite a war Riyadh didn’t want.

The need to cooperate on logistics is helping to reset Riyadh’s fractured relations with the UAE.

Efforts to root out corruption under Mohammed bin Salman, once written off as a power grab, have picked up.

Gulf economies will need to spend to get their economic diversification plans back on track once the war ends.

In a prolonged conflict, with the Strait of Hormuz blocked until the end of April, the worst-hit economies, Qatar and Kuwait, would contract by 14%.

Cove Capital and Saudi family conglomerate aim to raise multi billion dollar fund to acquire African mining operations.

UAE banks suffered service outages after an Amazon data center in the country was hit by drones.