This study investigates the impact of stock price fluctuations on stock markets in six countries in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar) during and after the recent geopolitics conflicts, known as Arab Spring, from January...

This paper addresses the problem of forecasting daily stock trends. The key consideration is to predict whether a given stock will close on uptrend tomorrow with reference to today's closing price. We propose a forecasting model that comprises a features selection model, based on the Genetic...

ABSTRACT This study examines whether the value relevance of Operating Cash Flows (OCF) varies between banks listed in the Egyptian Stock Exchange (ESE) as a representative of emerging markets and banks listed in the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) as a representative of frontier markets. We test our...

This paper examines the impact of Lebanese political news announcements on Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) returns and volatility from 2005 to 2014. Using a sample of (294) Lebanese political news, the results from GARCH, EGARCH and ARCH models reveal significant impacts of favorable and unfavorable...