development of financial markets as an important factor in the economic growth process always has been of interest to economists. the purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between regional financial development and economic growth. this study uses provincial annual data over the period 2000-2011 by using panel data technique. the panel co integration techniques have been used to te...

Technology is becoming deeply interwoven into the fabric of society. The Internet has become a central source of information for many people when making day-to-day decisions. Here, we present a method to mine the vast data Internet users create when searching for information online, to identify topics of interest before stock market moves. In an analysis of historic data from 2004 until 2012, w...

Forecasting financial markets is an important issue in finance area and research studies. On one hand, the importance of prediction, and on the other hand, its complexity, have led to huge number of researches which have proposed many forecasting methods in this area. In this study, we propose a hybrid model including Wavelet Transform, ARMA-GARCH and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for single-...

The focal objective of this study is to analyze and explore the Co-movement of Pakistan stock market (KSE-100) with the stock market of developed countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan, France and Neither land) which have portfolio investment in Pakistan by applying co-integration approach using Johansen and Juselius multivariate and bi variate co-integration. Secondary data of st...

Objective: There is a large theoretical literature regarding stock market manipulation. However, empirical evidence of manipulation remains scare especially in emerging markets like Iran. So, it is vital to detect and prevent. Manipulation distorts prices, thereby reducing market efficiency and harms public confidence. Distorted prices increase market volatility and risk. This study empirically...

Recent studies show that a negative shock in stock prices will generate more volatility than a positive shock of similar magnitude. The aim of this paper is to appraise the hypothesis under which the conditional mean and the conditional variance of stock returns are asymmetric functions of past information. We compare the results for the Portuguese Stock Market Index PSI 20 with six other Stock...

this paper investigates the nature of volatility characteristics of stock returns in the bangladesh stock markets employing daily all share price index return data of dhaka stock exchange (dse) and chittagong stock exchange (cse) from 02 january 1993 to 27 january 2013 and 01 january 2004 to 20 august 2015 respectively.  furthermore, the study explores the adequate volatility model for the stoc...

The goal of this research is to predict total stock market index of Tehran Stock Exchange, using the compound method of ARIMA and neural network in order for the active participations of finance market as well as macro decision makers to be able to predict trend of the market. First, the series of price index was decomposed by wavelet transform, then the smooth's series  predicted by using...

Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak has had a huge impact on all sectors of the world, especially economy. Among economic indicators, stock market indexes are particularly important, because markets anticipate future change and reflect investor confidence thus may be barometer overall Chinese US most important markets. Because New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) National Association Securities Dealers Au...

Stock return is usually considered to be affected by firm’s financial ratios as well as economic variables. Fundamental method assume that stock returns is not solely related to the stock market. Most result come from the company condition , industry situation and whole economy. In this paper, this relationship between stock return and fundamentals is studied using the data for 22 pharmaceutica...