Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday. Reuters has not verified the press reports and does not vouch of their accuracy.
_0">INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL
* GLOBAL MARKETS-Fed relief lifts Asian stocks, dollar slips
* Oil drops on weak U.S. fuel demand, returning Libya supply
* Gold up on softer dollar; India budget eyed for import duty cut
* MIDEAST STOCKS-Qatar, Egypt lead gains; UAE consolidates
* Luxembourg approves bill paving way for sukuk this year
* Head of Libya investment fund steps down over political law
* BNP pleads guilty again in $9 bln U.S. sanctions accord
* De Mistura succeeds Brahimi as U.N. Syria mediator - diplomats
* Iran says offers ways to ease impasse over underground nuclear plant
* Refugee agency says more than 35,000 people displaced by Yemen fighting
* Syrian government forces squeeze insurgents in Aleppo
TURKEY
* Turkish Airlines shares rise on Lufthansa long-haul talks
* Turkey's Turkiye Finans secures $350 mln Islamic loan
_0">* Turkish assets steady with falling oil price, Fed minutes eyed
_1">EGYPT
_2">* GrainCorp buys 10 pct of Egypt's largest private flour miller
_3">* Egypt's GASC buys 240,000 tonnes of Romanian wheat
_4">* Egypt issues Belayim crude sell tender for second half of 2014
_5">* BRIEF-Sinoma Intl's unit signs project worth 270 mln euros in Egypt to expand cement plants
_6">* Egypt pound unchanged at c.bank sale, slightly weaker on black market
_7">SAUDI ARABIA
_8">* Saudi British Bank Q2 profit rises 15.2 pct, beats estimates
_9">* UK questions Airbus staff, defence officials in Saudi corruption probe
_10">* TABLE-Saudi imports, non-oil exports fall 5 pct y/y in May
_11">* Saudi June oil production rises to 9.78 mln bpd
_12">UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
_13">* U.S. blacklists UAE firm for flouting sanctions on Syria
_14">* Newspaper says UAE holding suspected Qatari "agents" for questioning
_15">* Dubai's Gulf Navigation cuts capital, eyes new expansion
_0">* Emirates finalises $56 bln order for 150 Boeing 777X planes
_1">* TABLE-UAE May c.bank foreign assets rise 23 pct y/y to $82 bln
_2">* Brent-Dubai crude spread falls to eight-month low DUB-EFS-1M
_3">* Dubai developer Nakheel H1 net profit jumps 54 pct
_4">* Djibouti in legal dispute with DP World over port concession
_5">QATAR
_6">* Qatar slashes stake in London Stock Exchange group - Telegraph
_7">BAHRAIN
_8">* Bahrain questions opposition leader after expelling U.S. diplomat
_9">OMAN
_10">* BRIEF-Capstone gets first order in Oman for oil & gas production (Compiled by Dubai newsroom)
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