Goldman Sachs says executives will not attend Saudi conference

FILE PHOTO: The Goldman Sachs company logo is seen in the company's space on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) in New York, U.S., April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc will not send any of its executives to a Saudi investment conference next week, Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.

"I was not planning to go and we had no senior executives going to the conference," he said. "Dina Powell had been planning to go to the conference. She will not now be attending the conference."