an investor monitors a screen displaying stock information at the abu dhabi securities exchange june 25 2014 june 23 reuters  major stock markets in the gulf were subdued in early trade on thursday as mounting worries about the risks of a global recession kept broad investor sentiment fragile us federal reserve chair jerome powell said on wednesday the central bank was not trying to engineer a recession to stop inflation but was fully committed to bringing prices under control even if doing so risked an economic downturn read more a reuters poll showed the fed will deliver another 75basispoint interest rate hike in july followed by a halfpercentagepoint rise in september and wont scale back to quarterpercentagepoint moves until november at the earliest read more saudi arabias benchmark index tasi was down 01 in a choppy trade with petrochemical maker saudi basic industries corp 2010se falling 04 oil prices a key catalyst for the gulfs financial market continued to retreat as investors reassessed the risks of recession and the impact of interest rate hikes in major economies on fuel demand the main share index dfmgi in dubai the middle easts travel and tourism hub dropped 07 hit by a 14 fall in shariacompliant lender dubai islamic bank disbdu in abu dhabi the equities ftfadgi eased 02 with conglomerate international holding ihcad losing 03 separately more than 12 million tickets have been sold for qatars 2022 soccer world cup organisers said on wednesday qatar said it had hoped to attract 12 million visitors during the world cup nearly half of its population reporting by ateeq shariff in bengaluru editing by uttareshv