Karachi Stock Exchange

Source For the firm specific return prediction, a firm level monthly share prices, turnover and paid-up value data on KSE over eleven year period – January 2002 through December 2012 is collected from the websites of “Business Recorder and Karachi Stock Exchange” that are authentic sources of information. The data consists of monthly share prices of a large sample of 300 firms of 132 months. For risk free rate of return interest rate on 6-month Treasury bond is used. Accounting data has been collected

Asaolu (2006) mentioned that a country will prosper in long run, only if its stock market in a better financial position. Interest rate is considered as one of the main parameters to control the economic conditions of any country. Interest rate is the key variable for time value of money, which causes a greater shift in money markets and capital markets. This study is basically carried out for the capital market or stock market.

assumption that within a period of 3-12 months (short-term), the stocks that made gains (led to losses) in the past will make gains (lead to losses) in the future, obtained abnormal returns of 1% in each consecutive year. When the literature is examined, it is seen that very small number of studies paid regard to the power of adding the momentum factor to SMB and HML factors of Fama and French (WML-winners minus losers) in explaining stock returns. (Carhart 1997, Jegadeesh 2000, Liew and Vassalou 2000

of Pakistan were started in the Stock Exchange of Karachi. In the start of this launching, a single stock of futures was brought for introduction which was deliverable for just one month. It has almost nine years passed after that but this stock market is not considered as much as developed when it is compared to Indian market. The derivates related to finance, and which were traded in terms of exchange were initially started in Bombay Stock market and National Stock Market of India in the year of

  1. Background of the study 1.1. A study on the factors that influenced Malaysian stock market index is carry out in order to measure the movement of Malaysian stock market with the concern of macroeconomic variables which include the money supply (M2), exchange rate (EXR), inflation rate (CPI) and also industrial production index (IPI). 2. Problem Statement 2.1 The demand for investing in Malaysia stock market rise up recently. It shows that, investors are more attracted to invest with the

Random walk hypothesis of the Asian stock markets (Malaysia and Korea) strongly rejected examined by Huang (1995). Gordon and Rittenberg (1995) examines weak form efficiency do not apply on Warsaw Stock Exchange as prices are not fully reflect the information. There is some evidence suggested by Gilmore and McManus (2003), random walk hypothesis is rejected by his finding in this study from 1995 to 2000. Moreover, Vosvorda et al. (1998) analyse the Prague Stock Exchange and the weak form market efficiency

Pir Mehr Ali Shah University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi The Relationship between Stock Prices and Exchange Rate, Evidence from Pakistan Usman Azhar 08-arid-1606 Abid Hussain 08-arid-1608 Faisal Shahzad 08-arid-1620 Usman Fazal 08-arid-1634 MBA Finance University Institute of Management Sciences Dedication We would like to dedicate this accomplishment to our beloved and caring parents, and to our teachers with the

of the investor is of no value" . Holbrook (1934), has found that the subsequent changes in stock prices are not dependent on each other and are also uncorrelated and he concluded that they are random. Later, many of the researchers [Kendall (1953), Osborne (1959), Fama (1965)]have supported the findings of Holbrook. These studies used the statistical techniques to test the independence of stock price. The Efficient Market Hypothesis was established by many researchers in the past over

capitalization and adjusted on stock market using time series data from 1991 to 2011. A result shows that there is a significant relationship between foreign direct investment and stock market, as well as there is also a significant relationship between adjusted saving and stock market but there is insignificant relationship between market capitalization and stock market. Foreign direct investment, Market capitalization and Adjusted saving explains 90% of variation in the stock market. It is recommended

to the sell of new shares in the primary market for the first time to the general public. This research paper tries to explain the IPO, IPO methods and IPO pricing phenomena. This study has collected all those IPOs which are listed at National Stock Exchange during the study period January 2014 to November 2015. This study focuses on the IPOs price performance whether it is overpriced or underpriced. The IPOs price performance has been calculated by the IPOs post listing data. This study evaluates