The relationship between commodity prices and stock market of Malaysia

• मुख्य लेखक: Ng, Timmy Yau Fung
• स्वरूप: थीसिस
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: 2011
• विषय: HF Commerce
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/9434/1/mt0000000452.pdf

Commodities such as crude oil and palm oil are very Important for those emerging country which depend on the income from commodity export, for example Malaysia. Meanwhile, stock market is an important barometer or benchmark in measuring the finance healthy and economic strength of a country. Thus, this paper is to examine the relationship between commodities price and Malaysia stock market, while the commodities are crude oil and palm oil. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between Malaysia stock market with monthly crude oil price and palm oil price since January 1997 until December 2008. Johansen co-integration and Vector Error Correction Model are used to test the significance of relationship. The result showed that there is insignificant relationship between stock market with crude oil price or palm oil price.