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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-Stocks fall as Fed fails to offer fresh cause for cheer
* Oil falls as demand worries re-emerge, crews return to U.S. Gulf rigs
* MIDEAST STOCKS-Most Gulf markets gain; Saudi bourse slips
* PRECIOUS-Gold drops 1% as dollar rises after Fed's upbeat economic view
* As OPEC+ meets this week, UAE emerges as main laggard
* Gaza rockets, Israeli air strikes accompany Israel-Gulf pacts
* LCH begins clearing of Israeli shekel interest rate swaps
* Israel's Check Point Software buys secure remote access provider
* Israel economy slides 29% in Q2, consumer spending sinks
* Israel's Betalin Therapeutics plans IPO to fund diabetes trials
* Cash-strapped El Al Israel Airlines raises $148 mln in share offering
* 'Not yet too late': France says Lebanon must act to deliver new cabinet
* France says Lebanese depositors may not get all their cash, minutes show
* Head of Libya's Tripoli government says he wants to quit
* U.S. plans to enforce U.N. sanctions on Iran with its own action
* Syria says U.S. sanctions behind acute fuel crisis
EGYPT
* Egypt's GASC buys 235,000 T of Russian, Polish wheat
SAUDI ARABIA
* Saudi Arabia's SALIC ups stake in Brazil's Minerva
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
* Emirates Islamic Bank raises $500 mln via five-year sukuk
* Gulf International Bank sells $500 mln in 5-yr bonds
* Dubai's DP World to partner with Israeli firm in bid for Haifa Port
* UAE's ADNOC to cut Nov crude oil term supplies by 25% for all grades
* TABLE-UAE's Fujairah oil inventory data for week ended Sept 14
* ADIB signs memorandum of understanding with Israel's Bank Leumi
* Abu Dhabi's sovereign fund ADIA discloses 5.05% stake in Cheniere Energy
* Abu Dhabi Investment Office to open Tel Aviv office
QATAR
* Qatar's QDB extends loan guarantee program by three months, lifts ceiling - QNA
(Compiled by Dubai newsroom) ((dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com))