DUBAI - Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified the press reports and does not vouch for their accuracy.
INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL
* GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares dip, worries over growth and trade sour mood
* MIDEAST STOCKS-Oil hurts most of Gulf, blue-chips push down Egypt
* MIDEAST DEBT-Gulf gets boost as billions pour in before bond index entry
* Middle East Crude-Benchmarks ease; ESPO tender eyed
* POLL-Gulf Arab economies likely to grow more slowly through 2020
* Oil steady on hopes Chinese fiscal stimulus will stem economic slowdown
* PRECIOUS-Gold steady on global growth, Sino-U.S. trade worries
* Assad blocks access to Damascus for EU envoys -diplomats
* Car bomb kills one, injures 14 in Syria - state media
* Iran protests to Swiss envoy over U.S. arrest of a journalist
* A century on, Basra's British-era shipyard going strong
* Moroccan inflation rises to 1.9 pct yr/yr, planning agency says
* Lebanon dollar bonds slip after Moody's credit rating cut
EGYPT
* Egypt's MNHD calls off planned merger with SODIC -document
* Egypt says dozens of militants killed in Sinai peninsula
SAUDI ARABIA
* DAVOS-Saudi Aramco eyes multi-billion-dollar U.S. gas acquisitions - CEO
* Saudi Arabia eyes billions of dollars in entertainment investments
* Saudi Arabia trims list of authorized Brazil chicken exporters
* Saudi Aramco talking to credit rating agencies before bond deal - Bloomberg
* Saudi lender NCB's quarterly profit rises 3.5 pct
* Saudi Dec consumer price index accelerates 2.2 pct y/y
* Saudi Arabia sells 7.095 bln riyals sukuk in monthly issue
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
* China’s Roadbot plans $614 mln tyre plant investment in Abu Dhabi
* UAE open to co-hosting World Cup if Qatar rift resolved - sports chief
* UAE's Fujairah to ban ship exhaust cleaner when IMO 2020 kicks in
* Abu Dhabi fund allocates $3 bln deposit to Pakistan's central bank
* Colony Capital nears deal to buy Abraaj's Latin American business - WSJ
QATAR
* Qatar National Bank issues 500 mln renminbi in Dim Sum bonds
* UAE open to co-hosting World Cup if Qatar rift resolved - sports chief
BAHRAIN
* Bahrain got first funds from Gulf aid last year - c. bank governor
(Reporting By Dubai newsroom) ((Dubai.Newsroom@thomsonreuters.com))
