The shares of BP plc and its subcontractors were rocked when the financial markets discovered the true impact of the Deepwater Horizon explosion as reported in the Wall Street Journal on 22 April 2010. While we track the impact of the disaster on share prices of the key participants, perhaps the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the regional integration of national stock markets. Cluster analysis is utilised in order to determine whether returns generated in national stock markets form groupings. The results suggest that markets are segmented on a regional basis. This finding is...