During the October 9, 2007-March 9, 2009 period, the U.S. stock market experienced the worst bear market in its history since the Great Depression. Empirical studies show that exchange-traded country index funds can provide portfolio diversification benefits to investors in bull markets....

The 2008 crash was the most important global stock market crash in history since the Great Depression. In this paper, we study the contemporaneous co-movements of and the time-series lead/lag linkages between global stock markets after the 2008 stock market crash by using the time-varying...

In this paper, we compare the financial characteristics of Hong Kong and Singapore manufacturing firms with the MANOVA (Multivariate Analysis of Variance) technique. Our findings indicate that the liquidity, accounts receivable turnover, inventory turnover, total assets turnover, and equity...