In this research paper, attempt has been made to explore the relation especially the causal relation between stock market index i.e. BSE Sensex and three key macro economic variables of Indian economy by using correlation, unit root stationarity tests and Granger causality test. Monthly data has been used from April,1995 to March, 2009 for all the variables, like, BSE Sensex, wholesale price in...

Human decision making by professionals trading daily in the stock market can be a daunting task. It includes decisions on whether to keep on investing or to exit a market subject to huge price swings, and how to price in news or rumors attributed to a specific stock. The question then arises how professional traders, who specialize in daily buying and selling large amounts of a given stock, kno...

A number of studies have investigated the predictability of Chinese stock returns with economic variables. Given the newly emerged dataset from the Internet, this paper investigates whether the Baidu Index can be employed to predict Chinese stock returns. The empirical results show that 1) the Search Frequency of Baidu Index (SFBI) can predict next day’s price changes; 2) the stock prices go up...

The changes in the capital market bring transformation in the entire economy of the country. The boom and depression of the capital market is reflected in all sectors of the economy. Stock price downward movement continuously in the market forewarns the crisis period in advance. Numerous studies were conducted to trace the movement of stock market and its relationship with various economic fact...

The present paper explores the relationships between two commodity market indicators and stock market in India using daily time series data of 2 nd January 1991 – 31 st December 2012 comprising 5321 observations in the midst of employing Johansen co integration approach and Granger causality method. During the last two decades, both crude oil price and gold price (except 1997-2001) have been in...

Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factors of economic growth of a country. The impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important implications for monitory policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation and government policy towards financial markets. This study seeks evidence supporting the existence of share market efficiency based on the monthly da...

This paper examines the profitability of technical trading rules in the five Southeast Asian stock markets. The data cover a period of 14 years from January 2000 to December 2013. The instruments investigated are five Southeast Asian stock market indices: SET index (Thailand), FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLC index (Malaysia), FTSE Straits Times index (Singapore), JSX Composite index (Indonesia), and PS...