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-Asia stocks slip as high bond yields weigh on equities  

* MIDEAST STOCKS-Saudi rises as government winds down graft purge, region mostly weak  

* Oil prices fall for third day on inventory build  

* PRECIOUS-Gold treads water ahead of Trump speech, Fed meeting  

* Middle East Crude-Benchmarks stay firm; Formosa seeks April Oman  

* TABLE-Middle East crude oil futures at 0830 GMT  

* Rocky Syria talks in Russia end, ignore key opposition demands  

* Middle Eastern countries must broaden tax bases-IMF chief  

* Tillerson, Mattis call for calming tensions in Gulf dispute  

* NOC chief says investment key to rebuilding Libyan oil flows  

* Sudan currency slides on black market after wider trading band begins  

* Yemen separatists capture Aden, government confined to palace - residents  

* Angered by Trump, Palestinians disrupt business seminar U.S. helped organise  

* Morocco plans no more currency reforms for now as dirham stable - minister 

* Iran cites change in US navy behaviour in Gulf, US denies  

* EMERGING MARKETS-Emerging equities tumble 1.3 pct, Russian stocks rebound 

* Turkey's central bank hikes 2018 inflation forecast to 7.9 pct 

EGYPT

* Egypt's ex-army officers pose growing security threat
 

* Egypt agrees $3 bln financing deal with International Islamic Trade Finance Corp

* Egypt sees budget deficit at 9.4 pct/GDP in 2017-18-deputy finmin 

* EFG Hermes opens representative office in Bangladesh -executive 

* Egypt foreign reserves sufficient for eight months' imports-c.bank official

SAUDI ARABIA

* Saudi Arabia says it has seized over $100 billion in corruption purge 

* Saudi Aramco considering expansion to India- Nikkei 

* TABLE-Saudi Arabia Q4 earnings estimates (1) 

* TABLE-Saudi Arabia Q4 earnings estimates (2) 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

* UAE nuclear plant operator not ready to get licence yet -regulator 

* Emirates NBD hires banks for Singapore dollar bond issue 

* Dubai Islamic Bank gives initial guidance for planned dollar sukuk -sources 

* First Abu Dhabi Bank's Q4 profit crimped by merger costs 

* TABLE-UAE bank lending growth slows to multi-year low in December

* Dubai's Emirates NBD in early talks to buy Turkey's Denizbank 

* TABLE-Abu Dhabi Q4 earnings estimates 

* TABLE-Dubai Q4 earnings estimates 

QATAR

* Qatar agrees to financial disclosures in spat with U.S. carriers 

* Al Rayan Bank plans 250 mln pound mortgage-backed sukuk 

* TABLE-Qatar Q4 earnings estimates

KUWAIT

* TABLE-Kuwait Q4 earnings estimates 

BAHRAIN

* TABLE-Bahrain Q4 earnings estimates 

OMAN

* TABLE-Oman Q4 earnings estimates 

(Compiled by Dubai newsroom)