In this new era of economic growth, the exceptional increase in the crude oil prices is one of the significant developments that affecting the global economy. Crude oil is an important raw material used for manufacturing many goods, so that an extraordinary increase in the price of oil is bound...

This research unearths the jolts in oil prices that has effect on the actual stock returns in Nigeria over 2001-2011 using multivariate regression models. Variables ranging from altering oil prices, changes in stock returns, changes in exchange rates and altering world market index were...