The impact of business and political news on the GCC stock markets

Alanoud Al-Maadid; Guglielmo Maria Caporale; Fabio Spagnolo; Nicola Spagnolo

doi:10.1016/j.ribaf.2019.101102

The impact of business and political news on the GCC stock markets

Alanoud Al-Maadid, Guglielmo Maria Caporale^*, Fabio Spagnolo, Nicola Spagnolo

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This paper investigates the impact of business and political news on stock market returns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. For this purpose, it employs a Markov switching model including a separate index for each of the two categories of news considered. The results indicate the importance of news as drivers of GCC stock returns, with business news playing a more substantial role; further, news released in the largest financial markets in the regions are found to have significant cross-border effects.

Original language	English
Article number	101102
Journal	Research in International Business and Finance
Volume	52
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2019.101102
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020

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