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Impact of Political News on Stock Market
(UMT, Lahore, 2015-08-13) Kaneez Aisha
The objective of this research study is to examine the impact of political events on the stock market performance in Pakistan. In this study event Study Methodology is applied to investigate the impact of each event onKSE-100 index. Statistical technique independent t-test and F-test two samples for variance are applied to examine the impact of political events on stock market. The study focuses on different57 major political events from the period of 2005 to 2014. This study is attempted to determine the relationship between these political events and KSE-100 index by using 13 days event window. This study concludes that out of 57 events only 4 events have significant impact on KSE-100 index, the significant events are those which cause political stability and instability. So, on the basis of analysis it can be said that stock market is not reacting to political event in Pakistan in most cases.