The impact of foreign stock indices, foreign exchange and oil price on Malaysia stock market: study on consumer product sector index/ Muhammad Amrullah Musak

This paper study on the relationship between the impact of foreign stock indices and oil price on Malaysia stock market. The Malaysia stock market that we take as the indictor is the Consumer Product sector index. In this study we just focus on the Consumer Product sector index. We want to know the effect foreign stock indices that are like Nasdaq composite index, Dow Jones indices Average Index and Nikkei toward the Consumer Product Sector index. In this study we also see the effect of foreign exchange toward Consumer Product Sector index. The study shows there is significant effect of the foreign exchange toward the Consumer Product sector in Malaysian Stock index. Oil price also the most important thing that can effects the indices of a market. This study also includes the Consumer Product Stock index in Malaysia stock market is not effect by the oil price movement. Thus this may give the investor to get more alert on the relationship of the Foreign Stock Indices and oil price toward Consumer Product index.