The impact of macroeconomic variables on Malaysia stock market / Halimah Ahbar

This research was conducted to study the relationship between macroeconomic variables and stock market. The objectives of this research is to identify the relationship
independent variables(inflation rates, exchange rates and oil price) and dependent variable (stock markets). This study also was conducted to detemine the impact of
macroeconomic variables on stock market, and lastly to identify which variables give the most significant impact to stock markets. Finally, the purpose of this study is to
recommed the way to improve the stock market performance. The collection method used by researcher is secondary data which collected the data from Data Streams to run the data in SPSS’s Software. After analyze it using SPSS, the result showed that there just one of Indipendent variable which is exchange rates had significant effection
Malaysia stock market. While for exchange rates and oil price there is no significant effects on stock markets. So that oil price and exchange rates can not be used to predict the stock price. For the most significant effect toward stock markets is inflation rates. To increase the stock price government should take action in decreasing the inflation rate of the Malaysia. To other researcher they can have furthur study on this topic by adding other variables