A study on the impact fluctuation of oil price in Malaysia / Che Esah Che Dollah

Oil plays an important role in terms of production and the economy and it has a specific background and history. Between mid-1999 to 2008, the price of crude oil has increased substantially in the world market. The volatility shocks in crude oil markets have significant effects on a variety of economic activities and certain macroeconomic
variables, such as, real GDP growth rates, inflation, employment and exchange rates. To know the impact of changes of oil price in the market, the researcher will do the research to get the result which are the study will be support by literature review and regression result. In this study, the researcher will be focus more in the Malaysia cases which is to know what is the sector that is more be affect by the volatility of oil price in the market in the term of stock market performance, GDP and unemployment. The researchers use the data from 1990 until 2011 in quarterly data that collected from the internet. Based on this study, researcher was trying to make a conclusions and some recommendation that hopefully it can help our country can hedge the impact fluctuation of oil price. Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data. That is to examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables. To analyze this
study, researcher used descriptive statistics, and regression analysis method