Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s visit to town as part of a rare (and short) Gulf trip dominates coverage of the Kingdom in the foreign press this morning. His talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are getting ink from Reuters | The Guardian | BBC | AFP | The Financial Times and others.

Also: The FT is late to the launch of the CSOP Saudi Arabia ETF, the first Saudi exchange-traded fund to start trading in Asia, as we noted last week.

AND- Business Insider wonders whether the US and Saudi will wind up in a market-share warif rising US production prompts us to scrap oil cuts | Travel industry bible Skift notes that Will Smith is showing off Neom to his 60 mn followers

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