Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail

Rights issue has been a popular way of financing business by many public- listed corporations. There has been a great deal of finance literature on the effects of this method of financing on stock prices. M any empirical studies conducted earlier shown contradictory results. Some offered a negative...

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Main Author: Ismail, Hasnida
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Published: 1995
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spelling my.uitm.ir.936832024-05-09T04:27:46Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93683/ Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail Ismail, Hasnida Stock exchanges. Insider trading in securities Malaysia Securities. Fixed-income securities Kuala Lumpur. KLSE Malaysia Rights issue has been a popular way of financing business by many public- listed corporations. There has been a great deal of finance literature on the effects of this method of financing on stock prices. M any empirical studies conducted earlier shown contradictory results. Some offered a negative effect while others found no price effect. This study examined the effects of stock price on the rights issue announcement in the Malaysian Stock Market. However, methodology being used is the mean adjusted price where the based date is choosen on the 3 month before the announcement Besides that, the study also lend considerable support to the conclusion that the stock market is " efficient " in the sense that the stock prices adjust rapidly to new information. In other words, A s study attempts is to measure the ability of the market to anticipate new information and the speed with which adjust to new information and the purpose of rights issues. The news of the rights issues produces a favourable announcement effect that suggest that companies financing need cause neither surprise nor concern to the market 1995 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93683/1/93683.PDF Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail. (1995) [Student Project] (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
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topic Stock exchanges. Insider trading in securities
Malaysia
Securities. Fixed-income securities
Kuala Lumpur. KLSE
Malaysia
spellingShingle Stock exchanges. Insider trading in securities
Malaysia
Securities. Fixed-income securities
Kuala Lumpur. KLSE
Malaysia
Ismail, Hasnida
Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail
description Rights issue has been a popular way of financing business by many public- listed corporations. There has been a great deal of finance literature on the effects of this method of financing on stock prices. M any empirical studies conducted earlier shown contradictory results. Some offered a negative effect while others found no price effect. This study examined the effects of stock price on the rights issue announcement in the Malaysian Stock Market. However, methodology being used is the mean adjusted price where the based date is choosen on the 3 month before the announcement Besides that, the study also lend considerable support to the conclusion that the stock market is " efficient " in the sense that the stock prices adjust rapidly to new information. In other words, A s study attempts is to measure the ability of the market to anticipate new information and the speed with which adjust to new information and the purpose of rights issues. The news of the rights issues produces a favourable announcement effect that suggest that companies financing need cause neither surprise nor concern to the market
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author Ismail, Hasnida
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title Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail
title_short Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail
title_full Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail
title_fullStr Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail
title_full_unstemmed Stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / Hasnida Ismail
title_sort stock price reaction to the announcement of right issues / hasnida ismail
publishDate 1995
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