Download or read book A Study on the Factors Affecting the Stock Market Returns in Malaysia written by Dercio Chauque and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 2, Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation, language: English, abstract: This research paper investigates the dynamic relationship between Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) and four selected macroeconomic variables namely exchange rate, inflation rate, crude oil price and foreign direct investment. The research consists of 108 monthly observations from the period of January 2007 to December 2015. In this research, the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF) showed that at 5% significance level, all the variables are stationary at first difference. For the diagnostic tests, there is no multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation, and model specification problems. However, normality problem was detected in the model. Moreover, Granger causality test and OLS regression model were carried out to determine the short-run and long-run relationships between the KLCI and the selected macroeconomic variables respectively. Results suggest that in the short-run there is no relationship between the KLCI and the four selected macroeconomic variables. However, in the long-run exchange rate, inflation rate, and crude oil prices are found to significantly affect the performance of KLCI, whereas foreign direct investment is found not to influence the movements of KLCI. The exchange rate and inflation negatively affect the KLCI, and the crude oil price has a positive impact in the KLCI movements.

Download or read book Factors Influencing Investment Decisions in Financial Market by Retail Investors in Malaysia Their Analysis Methodology and Risk Tolerance written by Mohd Shukri Mahadi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examine the factors influencing retail investor in Malaysia investing in the financial market. Investment decisions need to be analysed on several number of variables. This research will study the factors influencing the investors' decision in financial market investment. Financial market instruments inclusive of Capital markets (Stocks and bonds), Money market, Spot market, derivatives markets (CFD, options), Forex and interbank market. The first objective is to determine whether internal factors (Heuristics and Prospects theories) influence the investor. The second objective is to sought if external factors (Herding, Market and FOMO) influence the investors. The third objective is to examine if investor's risk tolerance has an influenced to the investor. To achieve those objectives, correlational research analysis was carried out. The research target respondents was mainly from researcher own database of clients and active investor communities in social media. The questionnaires was distributed using online survey form (Google). Out of 300, 129 questionnaires was returned via online. The data was later analysed using descriptive and inferential method by using the SPSS software. The regression analysis indicates that internal factor has a positive influence to the investors when making the investment decisions in the financial market. While for external factors, the result shows market factors has a positive influence to the investors when making a decision on their financial investment. Market factors also has a positive significance to the investors. Meanwhile, the herding factors has a negative influence in to the investors when making the investment decision. On the other hand herding factor has a positive significance to the investors when making the investment decision in the financial market in Malaysia. Further the third factors, risk tolerance has a negative influence in the investment decision meanwhile it has positive significance when investing in the financial market. Based on the result, the study recommend the authorities/brokerages to educate the public especially retail investors about the need to make self-assessment on their risk tolerance as this is an important knowledge for all investors.

Download or read book Stock Returns and Volatility written by Hui Jie Ng and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact of Oil Price Fluctuations on Returns of Different Sectors of Malaysian Stock Market written by Atousa Jafarian and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil price fluctuations affect equity values in North American, European, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets, as evidenced by prior studies. However, they only focus on market-wide level analysis. This study, through both market level and sector level analyses, examines the sensitivity of Malaysian stock returns to oil price fluctuations over the period from January 2000 to March 2014. A multi-factor market model has been employed to capture this sensitivity. The regression results show a positive impact of oil price changes on the Financial Times Stock Exchange Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (FTSE KLCI) market return. Consumer staples and energy sector index returns were also positively affected by oil price changes. On the other hand, utilities and telecom services were negatively affected over the study period. Moreover, Granger causality analysis was performed to see if oil price fluctuations Granger cause the stock indices to change. With one month lag period, oil price fluctuations Granger cause consumer staple, energy, industrial, and telecommunication services return. Relevant policymakers and market caretakers (Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, and Security Commission) may use the findings of this study to develop and incorporate a preventive mechanism to minimize the unfavorable impacts of oil price fluctuations on different sectors of stock market, and Malaysian economy in general.

Download or read book Report of Progress on Recommendations of the El Dorado County Agricultural Economic Conference Held October 27 and 28 1938 written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 8th Global Conference on Business Management and Entrepreneurship GCBME 2023 written by Ratih Hurriyati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 1331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geopolitical Risk on Stock Returns Evidence from Inter Korea Geopolitics written by Seungho Jung and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate how corporate stock returns respond to geopolitical risk in the case of South Korea, which has experienced large and unpredictable geopolitical swings that originate from North Korea. To do so, a monthly index of geopolitical risk from North Korea (the GPRNK index) is constructed using automated keyword searches in South Korean media. The GPRNK index, designed to capture both upside and downside risk, corroborates that geopolitical risk sharply increases with the occurrence of nuclear tests, missile launches, or military confrontations, and decreases significantly around the times of summit meetings or multilateral talks. Using firm-level data, we find that heightened geopolitical risk reduces stock returns, and that the reductions in stock returns are greater especially for large firms, firms with a higher share of domestic investors, and for firms with a higher ratio of fixed assets to total assets. These results suggest that international portfolio diversification and investment irreversibility are important channels through which geopolitical risk affects stock returns.

Download or read book Dividend Policy and Stock Price Volatility written by David E. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asia s Stock Markets written by Mr.Fabian Lipinsky and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of size and cross-border investment activity, the region’s markets are reputed to be more “idiosyncratic” and less reliant on economic and corporate fundamentals in their pricing. Using a model that draws on international asset pricing and economic theory, as well as accounting literature, we find evidence of greater idiosyncratic influences in the pricing of Asia’s stock markets, compared to their G-7 counterparts, beyond the identified systematic factors and local fundamentals. We also show proof of a significant relationship between the strength of implementation of securities regulations and the “noise” in stock pricing, which suggests that improvements in the regulation of securities markets in Asia could enhance the role of stock markets as stable and reliable sources of financing into the future.

Download or read book International Capital Flows written by Martin Feldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent changes in technology, along with the opening up of many regions previously closed to investment, have led to explosive growth in the international movement of capital. Flows from foreign direct investment and debt and equity financing can bring countries substantial gains by augmenting local savings and by improving technology and incentives. Investing companies acquire market access, lower cost inputs, and opportunities for profitable introductions of production methods in the countries where they invest. But, as was underscored recently by the economic and financial crises in several Asian countries, capital flows can also bring risks. Although there is no simple explanation of the currency crisis in Asia, it is clear that fixed exchange rates and chronic deficits increased the likelihood of a breakdown. Similarly, during the 1970s, the United States and other industrial countries loaned OPEC surpluses to borrowers in Latin America. But when the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates to control soaring inflation, the result was a widespread debt moratorium in Latin America as many countries throughout the region struggled to pay the high interest on their foreign loans. International Capital Flows contains recent work by eminent scholars and practitioners on the experience of capital flows to Latin America, Asia, and eastern Europe. These papers discuss the role of banks, equity markets, and foreign direct investment in international capital flows, and the risks that investors and others face with these transactions. By focusing on capital flows' productivity and determinants, and the policy issues they raise, this collection is a valuable resource for economists, policymakers, and financial market participants.

Download or read book Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets written by Wing-Keung Wong and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Efficient Market Hypothesis believes that it is impossible for an investor to outperform the market because all available information is already built into stock prices. However, some anomalies could persist in stock markets while some other anomalies could appear, disappear and re-appear again without any warning. A Special Issue on "Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets" will be devoted to advancements in the theoretical development of market efficiency and anomaly in the Stock Market, as well as applications in Stock Market efficiency and anomalies.

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Advance Research in Social and Economic Science ICARSE 2022 written by Hyeyun Ku and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book.ThemeOptimizing the use of social science and economics in the post-pandemic revival era The Covid-19 pandemic is slowly starting to be overcome. Contributions from various disciplines are also needed in the context of post-pandemic recovery, including the fields of social science and economics. Thus, the International Conference on Advanced Research in Social and Economic Science is a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and advances on how emerging research methods and sources are applied to various fields of the social sciences, as well as discuss current and future challenges. Join the social sciences conference as we explore the latest trends in social sciences and discuss common challenges in politics, social, communication, humanities, networking society, business, sustainable development, and international relations.

Download or read book The effect of weather on stock returns A comparison between emerging and developed markets written by Irina Prodan and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One renowned and frequently researched anomaly over the last two decades is the weather effect, more precisely, the impact of weather on stock market returns. The extensive literature on the weather effect fails to converge towards a unique, systematic and robust relationship between the weather, and the stock market. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explain the contradictory results in the literature by testing whether stock prices are affected by the weather in a significantly different manner depending on the level of market development, and explaining how this difference behaves over time. In order to test for this, city-by-city, pooled and binary regressions are employed using data of 10 developed, and 10 emerging countries over the period 1996-2011 by using two different means of seasonal adjustment.

Download or read book Fundamental Analysis Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis on the Stock Market written by Timo Schlichting and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Essen, language: English, abstract: Historically considered, fundamental and technical analyses have always competed, often leading to advocates that ideologically judge either a fundamental analysis or technical analysis to be the one and only analyzing concept. Behavioral finance is a relatively new scientific approach to explain psychological anomalies on the stock market, but is also more and more often considered to be able to compete with both fundamental and technical analyses. Still, do these analysis concepts really compete in practice or could they actually supplement each other with their respective strengths? Taking the turbulent stock market phases as well as these unanswered questions about fundamental analysis, behavioral finance and the technical analysis into consideration, this thesis ultimately pursues two general objectives: Firstly, fundamental analysis, behavioral finance and technical analysis should be scientifically examined in terms of their premises, analysis approaches, empirical evidences as well as strengths and weaknesses. Secondly, it should be examined as to whether the fundamental analysis, behavioral finance and technical analysis have theoretical and practical synthesis capabilities that could be used for developing a synthesis concept. The synthesis concept should combine the respective strengths and eliminate the respective weaknesses of each of the three analysis concepts. Fundamental analysis, behavioral finance and technical analysis are examined in detail. Empirical studies should prove if, and by which approaches, the analysis concept is able to predict future stock prices. In order to be able to develop a synthesis concept, each analysis concept is evaluated by a SWOT analysis, pursuing the objective of determining the respective strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the

Download or read book The Efficient Market Hypothesis and its Application to Stock Markets written by Sebastian Harder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1.7, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: Especially after the 90ies, where the stock markets raised enormously, many private investors joined the stock market and were blended by abnormal profits and neglected possible losses. The same behavior could be observed before the Financial Crisis became reality. But each endless raising stock market would finally collapse, because stock prices are randomly and only driven by relevant news. The adjustment to the news is quickly. This is the theoretical argumentation of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which will be evaluated in this paper. The author gives an overview about the EMH by explaining the basic principles and its mathematical formulation. The practical part evaluated the EMH on selected examples, where the theory could only be partly approved.

Download or read book Studies on the Behavior of Equity Markets written by Achla Marathe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a practical understanding of issues surrounding the efficiency, volatility, and integration of equity markets and their interaction with special applications to developed and developing countries. Investigates whether the opening of emerging markets to foreign investors is facilitating the efficiency and integration of these markets with global markets, and performs a case study on the equity market in Korea to understand the extent of the impact of equity market liberalization on domestic market fundamentals. Contains chapters on predicting stock returns using components of output, recessionary and non-recessionary markets, stock market bubbles, and macroeconomic determinants of emerging stock markets. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Asia Pacific Financial Markets written by Suk-Joong Kim and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of "International Finance Review" focuses on the Asia-Pacific financial markets. A total of 22 original papers, not published elsewhere, have been selected from a competitive field. These papers utilize a variety of methods, including theoretical, empirical and qualitative to highlight a range of issues across the region. Several papers offer combinations of these different categories and among the empirical papers, there are a wide variety of datasets analyzed. While China does play a significant part in the analysis of five of the papers in this volume (this is to be expected given its importance in the region), a host of other countries are also considered. This ensures the volume is truly international in its scope. These papers each serve to contribute to the knowledge on a particular issue related to the financial markets within this region and for this volume, three main issues have been identified: integration, innovation and challenges. Articles are contributed by experts in their fields. It is truly international in scope.