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In: Journal of Contemporary Management Sciences: Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2015
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2015 erstellt
Beschreibung:
In relation to the economic fundamentals of the equity, technical trading rules, and economic calendar events, there are some anomalies. In the non-investing world, anomalies have odd or strange presence. Security prices show information available in efficient market where anomalies are referred when securities act opposite to the market. The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of Day of the week and January effect on stock returns, to analyse the existence of anomalies and significance of market efficiency hypothesis. For analysis the data sample period is from 1992 to 2013, while daily returns are for day of the week effect while monthly for January effect. For day of the week effect, it has been found a mix of results in two sessions, first from 1992 to 1997 effect exist, while later till 2013 there are insignificant results. For January effect, the results show no existence. The investors and policy makers should take into account these trends and make policies in order to get benefit from these anomalies. They can bring changes in it by making policies and influence the trend of the market