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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 tumble, yen rallies as U.S. and China escalate trade war
* Oil prices slide as U.S.-China trade war escalates
* PRECIOUS-Gold soars 2% after Powell speech, Trump tweets
* Trump heaps another 5% tariff on Chinese goods in latest tit-for-tat escalation
* Fed's commitment to act upstaged by Trump's furor
* Yemen's Houthis attack Saudi Arabia's Abha airport with drones - Al Masirah TV
* UAE minister calls Saudi-UAE coalition a strategic necessity in Yemen
* Israel strikes at Iranian forces in Syria to foil attack -military
* EXCLUSIVE-Sudan needs up to $10 billion in aid to rebuild economy, new PM says
* Qatari envoy says Israel, Hamas committed to truce despite violence
* Britain sends another warship to boost presence in the Gulf
EGYPT
* Egypt's central bank cuts rates by 150 bps after inflation slows
SAUDI ARABIA
* Saudi Arabia to buy 10% of annual wheat from Saudi firms abroad -SAGO
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
* Takaful Emarat Insurance Board Appoints Tammam Abdullah As Acting CEO
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom)