Crown Prince, Blinken sit-down drive the conversation for the global press

Surprising no one, Blinken’s visit to town dominated coverage of Saudi in the foreign press yesterday with ink from Reuters | Bloomberg | Associated Press | AFP | The New York Times | The Washington Post | BBC and others.

MEANWHILE- Bloomberg is taking note of UAE’s Mubadala following in the PIF’s footsteps in tapping Islamic debt markets. Mubadala is looking to raise c. USD 1 bn in its first USD-denominated Islamic bond sale, sources told Bloomberg. The PIF raised last month USD 2 from a sukuk sale that saw strong demand as it looks to accelerate the pace of investment.

And a little tennis: Three-times Grand Slam champion Andy Murray seems to be undecided on Saudi’s tennis push. “I genuinely don’t know all of the details on…what the Saudi offer is, but we’ll see what happens in the coming weeks,” he told Sky News in an interview yesterday (watch, runtime: 1:21). Meanwhile, football is getting attention from the Associated Press and Le Monde.