Kamis, 11 Juli 2013

Macroeconomic variables and stock market: US review


REVIEW JOURNAL

TITLE             : Macroeconomic variables and stock market: US review
WRITER         : Martin Sirucek
A.    The background and research purposes
Investing in shares is one of the options how to appreciate disposable financial resources. Unlike other financial assets, investors link this instrument with certain features – stocks and shares are claimed to be a risky investment instrument as they can be subject to dramatic price swings over a short period of time.
The effect of psychological factors is characteristic for the short-term and medium-term investment horizon, while a long-term investor should pay attention mostly to fundamental factors and realise the fundaments on which he or she was entering the position It is the fundaments and their impact on the price of a particular title that are the most well-known factors over the long run.
The primary factor of share price growth stated by Hysek (2009) is as the ability of companies to improve their financial indicators (mostly free cash flow and/or net profit per share). Shares and stock markets are very sensitive to any price-shaping information relevant for the future direction of the market development.
B.     Method
By using the OLS method, the paper will work with the standard regressive multidimensional model derived from the study of Kandir (2008) and other coherent mathematic-statistical methods.
Weber (1995).
This correlation will be tracked by the Pearson correlation coefficient.. Related standard tests will be used within the analysis and compilation of the regressive model as well. They will include firstly the Durbin-Watson statistical test of seemingly unrelated regression that will subsequently be benchmarked against the determination index value.
C.     The results of research and discussions
As said above, the fundamental method for analysing stocks and shares is the correlation analysis.
The values reached for correlation coefficients confirm the positive correlation between interest rates, oil prices, producer price index and industrial production index. They also confirm negative correlation for unemployment, which corresponds to the economic theory
D.    Conclusion
As the current price of stocks and shares expresses discounted future expected evenues from their sale, Flannery and Protopapadakis (2002) consider macroeconomic factors as the most significant indicators determining the income from shares, because these factors have an impact on future cash flow of the society and on discount rates. This means that it is macroeconomic factors that have a dominant impact on the share prices.

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