The impact of macroeconomics variables towards gold prices: the case of before and during pandemic / Hajar Aisara Arafidin

This research studies the impact of macroeconomics variables towards gold price for case of before and during pandemic. Next, the goal of this research studies to take a look into the relationships and impacts of the independent variables, which are inflation rate (INF), exchange rate (EXR), and the stock market index (KLCI) on the Malaysia gold price (MGP). This research studies use 6 years of data collection from year 2016 to year 2021. Furthermore, this research studies are using the secondary sources such as the journal and articles from Google Scholar. In addition, the raw data are be collected from the yahoo finance, Macro trends and others. Then, this research studies have run the descriptive analysis, multiple linear regression, and correlation analysis test to determine whether the independent variables are significant or insignificant towards the dependent variables, and it also to determine whether the it has a positive or negative relationship. The findings show there are significantly positive correlation relationship between inflation rate and Malaysia gold price before the pandemic covid-19 and there is significant negative relationship between stock market and Malaysia gold price and there are insignificant relationships for other variables.