Man Who Moved Oil With His Words Won't Talk About It Anymore
- Former Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi now interested in solar
- Al-Naimi says he’s left oil prices and crude markets behind
Former Saudi Oil Minister Focuses Beyond Oil
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For more than two decades, the oil market hung to Ali al-Naimi’s every word -- whether he was taking a characteristic stroll at dawn on Vienna’s Ringstrasse, hurrying through a hotel lobby after a conference, or dodging throngs of reporters at an OPEC meeting.
Now that he’s done with his near 21-year stint as Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, during which his utterances could move everything from crude to currencies and stocks worldwide, al-Naimi says he doesn’t want to talk about the market anymore.