Wall St. gains as defense, tech stocks rise

President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia over the weekend and sealed $110 billion in deals in which Riyadh will buy U.S. arms to help it counter Iran, with options running as high as $350 billion over 10 years. Shares of defense firms such as General Dynamics (GD.N), Raytheon (RTN.N), Boeing (BA.N) and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) were up between 1 percent and 2.2 percent.
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