DUBAI, March 30 (Reuters) - Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Thursday. Reuters has not verified the press reports and does not vouch for their accuracy.

INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL

* GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia shares creep up to near 2-year peak, dollar firms

* MIDEAST STOCKS-Saudi Arabia outperforms in otherwise sluggish region

* Oil dips as record US crude stocks outweigh falling Libya output

* PRECIOUS-Gold steady amid Brexit, doubts over Trump policy and French election

* Middle East Crude-Dubai rebounds; Qatar Marine discount widens in distressed sale

* Iran lifts ban on Brazilian meat imports -Temer

* OPEC compliance with oil curbs rises in March as UAE joins cut - survey

* Shares of Turkey's Halkbank sink after executive arrested in U.S.

* Rattled by Trump, Arab leaders renew call for Palestinian state

* Iran posts trade surplus for second time in 37 years - IRNA

* Vice Media takes its edgy journalism to the Middle East

* LIA chief Ali Shamekh targets inward investment, London office

* Turkish banks' net profit rises 85 pct in Jan-Feb -regulatory data

EGYPT

* Egypt's Sisi to visit Saudi Arabia in April - Saudi FM

* Egypt to monitor not ban private sector wheat imports during harvest

* Egypt's cabinet approves 2017/18 budget, targeting 9.1 percent deficit

* Egypt's financing plan sees return to international markets early-2018 -minister

* Egypt to halve arrears with oil companies in coming weeks

* Moody's says Egypt's IMF program to support fiscal and external position reform pace may slip



SAUDI ARABIA

* MIDEAST DEBT-Saudi Aramco pays premium in debut sukuk sale

* TABLE-Saudi GDP growth edges up in Q4 on back of oil sector

* Saudi Arabia considering changes to debut dollar sukuk structure -sources

* Saudi British Bank to issue subordinated SAR sukuk of upto 1.5 bln riayls

* Mitsubishi UFJ optimistic on Saudi project finance, Aramco IPO role

* Riyad Bank board approves appointment of Abdulmajeed Abdullah Almobarak as CEO

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

* Amnesty says UAE sentences dissident professor to 10 years

* Abu Dhabi fund loses crisis-related arbitration against Citigroup

* Ride-hailing firm Careem on lookout for acquisitions, IPO an option

* TABLE-UAE's Fujairah oil inventory data for week ended March 27

QATAR

* Shell's Qatar GTL plant to restart operations by mid-April - official

KUWAIT

* Kuwait's Kamco Investment FY profit rises

* Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait sets initial price guidance for dollar bond

BAHRAIN

* Trump administration pursues sale of F-16's to Bahrain -source

* Bahrain sentences two to death over 2015 bomb attack that killed two policemen

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom)