Macroeconomic and the Malaysian equity market / Mohamad Ridhuan Shah Omar

Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) is a contract traded on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Market. It is one of the alternative trading instruments. It is to ensure that the measure remains strong in the national economy with growing relation to global economy. This study is to investigate the relationship between Kuala Lumpur Composite Index and selected macroeconomic variable such as money supply, real output, exchange rate and price level. The time series data will be used for this study which based on monthly from year 2003 until 2008. The analysis of the data will be done by using E-view software. Time series econometric techniques of Ordinary Least Square regression will be used to study on the relationship between KLCI and selected macroeconomic variables. It is expected that the most of the data findings on the variables are going to be significant. This is based on previous study made by many researches that found the findings are significantly related between dependent and independent variables.