PHOTO
DUBAI - 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 stock rush pauses, bonds rally on sober Fed
* Oil prices drop on concerns about patchy demand recovery, record U.S. stocks
* MIDEAST STOCKS-Saudi eases; other Gulf markets mixed
* PRECIOUS-Gold hits over 1-week high on gloomy U.S. Fed outlook
* Lebanese government picks central bank vice governors, fills top state jobs
* Lebanon central bank's new FX trading platform to open on June 23
* Lebanese pound slides further despite new pricing system
* Moroccan MPs rap virus lockdown extension, saying people "exhausted"
* U.N. Libya mission says warring sides have engaged in truce talks
* Eni says situation at Libya's Mellitah has returned to normal
* Protests hit Druze city in Syria for fourth day
* Iran urges Russia, China to resist US push to extend arms embargo
* Iran says will now send Ukraine airliner black boxes to Paris -sources
* Israel's El Al airline may be heading back into state hands
EGYPT
* Egypt's headline inflation slowed to 4.7% in May -CAPMAS
* Egypt's GASC buys 120,000 tonnes of Russian wheat in tender
* Italy weighs warships to Egypt deal after student murder
SAUDI ARABIA
* U.S. crude stockpiles surge to record high on big Saudi imports -EIA
* Saudi Aramco raises gasoline prices for June -state TV
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
* UAE economy to contract by 3.6% this year, central bank says
* Dubai merger boosts state-linked property firm's debt - sources
* Emirates airline redundancies continue for second day, sources say
* UAE hiring starts to pick up after sharp coronavirus fall -LinkedIn
(Compiled by Dubai newsroom) ((dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com))