Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) in Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries. However, this study is only testing the weak form of EMH. The industries chosen for this research is Construction, Consumer, Industrial and Tin and Mining industry....

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Main Author: Noor Azlan, Muhammad Adib Akmal
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Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2017
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description The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) in Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries. However, this study is only testing the weak form of EMH. The industries chosen for this research is Construction, Consumer, Industrial and Tin and Mining industry. The data was collected in for each industry for daily, weekly and monthly basis from year 2011 to 2015. This study used Autoregressive Model to regress the past stock price with the current stock price. Tests employed for this study includes descriptive analysis, test for estimated empirical model, stationary tests and diagnostic tests. Result of this study reveals that for daily data, all of the industries has significant relationship which can be concluded as inefficiently weak. Meanwhile, for weekly data only consumer industry is inefficiently weak and for monthly data only industrial industry is inefficiently weak. All the other data for other industries can be concluded as efficiently weak. These results provide understanding towards investors, analysts and regulator in dealing with Efficient Market Hypotheses.
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spelling my.uitm.ir-265142020-06-01T01:36:50Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26514/ Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan Noor Azlan, Muhammad Adib Akmal Stock exchanges. Insider trading in securities Stock price indexes. Stock quotations The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) in Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries. However, this study is only testing the weak form of EMH. The industries chosen for this research is Construction, Consumer, Industrial and Tin and Mining industry. The data was collected in for each industry for daily, weekly and monthly basis from year 2011 to 2015. This study used Autoregressive Model to regress the past stock price with the current stock price. Tests employed for this study includes descriptive analysis, test for estimated empirical model, stationary tests and diagnostic tests. Result of this study reveals that for daily data, all of the industries has significant relationship which can be concluded as inefficiently weak. Meanwhile, for weekly data only consumer industry is inefficiently weak and for monthly data only industrial industry is inefficiently weak. All the other data for other industries can be concluded as efficiently weak. These results provide understanding towards investors, analysts and regulator in dealing with Efficient Market Hypotheses. Faculty of Business and Management 2017 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26514/1/26514.pdf Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan. (2017) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/26514.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Stock exchanges. Insider trading in securities
Stock price indexes. Stock quotations
Noor Azlan, Muhammad Adib Akmal
Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan
title Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan
title_full Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan
title_fullStr Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan
title_full_unstemmed Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan
title_short Testing of weak form efficiency on Bursa Malaysia’s selected industries / Muhammad Adib Akmal Noor Azlan
title_sort testing of weak form efficiency on bursa malaysia’s selected industries / muhammad adib akmal noor azlan
topic Stock exchanges. Insider trading in securities
Stock price indexes. Stock quotations
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