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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 recover but anxiety over trade talks lingers
* Oil prices fall as hopes for U.S.-China trade progress wilt
* PRECIOUS-Gold at one-week high as trade talk hopes fade
* MIDEAST STOCKS-Gulf stocks drop as U.S.-China trade tensions mount
* Turkey opens ground assault on Syria's Kurds; U.S. Republicans turn on Trump
* Arab League to hold emergency meeting over Turkish offensive into Syria
* Iraqi PM announces cabinet reshuffle after week of bloody protests
* Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda to lead fractured new parliament
* Tunisian presidential candidate freed days before election
* Libya's Ras Lanuf polyethylene plant resumes production
* Libya's oil revenue at $16 bln in first 9 months - central bank
* Morocco reshuffles cabinet, keeps foreign and finance ministers
* Spies hacked Moroccan activists amid crackdown on protests - researchers
* Shell still has appetite for Mideast investments, says CEO
EGYPT
* World Bank sees Egypt economy growing 5.8% in 2019/20
* Egypt dollar bonds fall in anticipation of new supply
SAUDI ARABIA
* Attacks on Saudi Aramco have no impact on IPO plans - CEO
* Several Asian refiners to get full Saudi oil supplies in November -sources
* Saudi developer Dar Al Arkan sells $600 mln in Islamic bonds
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
* UAE's Etihad Rail awards $436 mln contract to Hitachi Rail
* TABLE-UAE's Fujairah oil inventory data for week ended Oct 7
QATAR
* Qatar National Bank nine-month net profit rises 4% to 11.2 bln riyals
(Compiled by Dubai Newsroom;) ((dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com))