When President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, he’ll be accompanied by at least five billionaires.

Worth an estimated $870 billion combined, the group includes Tesla CEO Elon Musk, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook, General Electric CEO Larry Culp, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, according to the White House. They’re part of a group of 16 executives from U.S. companies expected to attend, several of which have deals pending with China.

The meeting will take place Thursday, with the war with Iran expected to be a key topic.

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President Donald Trump said he would suspend the federal gas tax, though the savings would be a drop in the bucket given the recent surge in prices at the pump.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s fortune is approaching $200 billion for the first time as his company’s shares continued a winning streak that sent its market cap above a record $5.3 trillion.

Billionaire Mike Novogratz’s crypto and data center company Galaxy is teaming up with Miami-based Ethereum treasury company Sharplink to launch a $125 million fund targeting higher returns in decentralized finance, or DeFi. Sagging crypto prices have punished digital asset treasury firms, but with the new fund, Sharplink will push into more active DeFi strategies.

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