MIDEAST STOCKS - Factors to watch - July 10

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.

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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

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* Turkish assets steady with falling oil price, Fed minutes eyed

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EGYPT

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* GrainCorp buys 10 pct of Egypt's largest private flour miller

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* Egypt's GASC buys 240,000 tonnes of Romanian wheat

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* Egypt issues Belayim crude sell tender for second half of 2014

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* BRIEF-Sinoma Intl's unit signs project worth 270 mln euros in Egypt to expand cement plants

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* Egypt pound unchanged at c.bank sale, slightly weaker on black market

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SAUDI ARABIA

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* Saudi British Bank Q2 profit rises 15.2 pct, beats estimates

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* UK questions Airbus staff, defence officials in Saudi corruption probe

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* TABLE-Saudi imports, non-oil exports fall 5 pct y/y in May

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* Saudi June oil production rises to 9.78 mln bpd

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

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* U.S. blacklists UAE firm for flouting sanctions on Syria

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* Newspaper says UAE holding suspected Qatari "agents" for questioning

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* Dubai's Gulf Navigation cuts capital, eyes new expansion

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* Emirates finalises $56 bln order for 150 Boeing 777X planes

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* TABLE-UAE May c.bank foreign assets rise 23 pct y/y to $82 bln

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* Brent-Dubai crude spread falls to eight-month low DUB-EFS-1M

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* Dubai developer Nakheel H1 net profit jumps 54 pct

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* Djibouti in legal dispute with DP World over port concession

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QATAR

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* Qatar slashes stake in London Stock Exchange group - Telegraph

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BAHRAIN

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* Bahrain questions opposition leader after expelling U.S. diplomat

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OMAN

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* BRIEF-Capstone gets first order in Oman for oil & gas production (Compiled by Dubai newsroom)

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