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

INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL

* GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares dip, worries over growth and trade sour mood 

* MIDEAST STOCKS-Oil hurts most of Gulf, blue-chips push down Egypt

* MIDEAST DEBT-Gulf gets boost as billions pour in before bond index entry

* Middle East Crude-Benchmarks ease; ESPO tender eyed 

* POLL-Gulf Arab economies likely to grow more slowly through 2020 

* Oil steady on hopes Chinese fiscal stimulus will stem economic slowdown 

* PRECIOUS-Gold steady on global growth, Sino-U.S. trade worries 

* Assad blocks access to Damascus for EU envoys -diplomats 

* Car bomb kills one, injures 14 in Syria - state media 

* Iran protests to Swiss envoy over U.S. arrest of a journalist 

* A century on, Basra's British-era shipyard going strong 

* Moroccan inflation rises to 1.9 pct yr/yr, planning agency says 

* Lebanon dollar bonds slip after Moody's credit rating cut 

 

EGYPT

* Egypt's MNHD calls off planned merger with SODIC -document 

* Egypt says dozens of militants killed in Sinai peninsula 

 

SAUDI ARABIA

* DAVOS-Saudi Aramco eyes multi-billion-dollar U.S. gas acquisitions - CEO 

* Saudi Arabia eyes billions of dollars in entertainment investments 

* Saudi Arabia trims list of authorized Brazil chicken exporters 

* Saudi Aramco talking to credit rating agencies before bond deal - Bloomberg 

* Saudi lender NCB's quarterly profit rises 3.5 pct 

* Saudi Dec consumer price index accelerates 2.2 pct y/y 

* Saudi Arabia sells 7.095 bln riyals sukuk in monthly issue 

 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

* China’s Roadbot plans $614 mln tyre plant investment in Abu Dhabi 

* UAE open to co-hosting World Cup if Qatar rift resolved - sports chief 

* UAE's Fujairah to ban ship exhaust cleaner when IMO 2020 kicks in 

* Abu Dhabi fund allocates $3 bln deposit to Pakistan's central bank 

* Colony Capital nears deal to buy Abraaj's Latin American business - WSJ 

 

QATAR

* Qatar National Bank issues 500 mln renminbi in Dim Sum bonds 

* UAE open to co-hosting World Cup if Qatar rift resolved - sports chief

BAHRAIN

* Bahrain got first funds from Gulf aid last year - c. bank governor 

(Reporting By Dubai newsroom) ((Dubai.Newsroom@thomsonreuters.com))