jan 5 reuters  most major gulf stocks ended lower on thursday after a hawkish message from minutes of the us federal reserves last meeting while the saudi bourse reversed early losses to close flat and the egyptian index extended gains to a sixth day minutes of the feds december meeting released overnight showed while officials agreed that the central bank should slow the pace of interest rate increases they remained focused on curbing inflation meanwhile top oil exporter saudi arabia lowered the february official selling prices osps for the flagship arab light crude it sells to asia to plus 180 a barrel versus the omandubai average a source with knowledge of the matter told reuters on thursday the price is 145 a barrel less than the january osp saudi arabias benchmark stock index tasi closed flat as losses in energy and financial shares were capped by gains in real estate stocks in abu dhabi the benchmark index ftfadgi declined 03 as the countrys largest lender first abu dhabi bank fabad eased 06 while fertiliser maker fertiglobe fertiglobead tumbled 24 alpha dhabi alphadhabiad and abu dhabi state fund mubadala investment plan to deploy up to 9 billion dirhams 245 billion in credit markets through a new joint venture the companies said alpha dhabi was down 06 elsewhere abu dhabi national oil company adnoc said on thursday it would allocate 15 billion to decarbonisation projects by 2030 dubais main share index dfmgi fell 04 led by losses in real estate and financial stocks as bluechip developer emaar properties emardu lost 14 and lender emirates nbd enbddu was down 04 the benchmark stock index in qatar qsi jumped 28 to close the week with a gain of 43 outside the gulf egypts bluechip index egx30 closed 29 higher touching its highest level since august 2018 with commercial international bank egypt comica jumping 25 reporting by shamsuddin mohd in bengaluru editing by emelia sitholematarise