Efficient market hypothesis (EMH) states that financial markets are “informationally efficient”, implying that current prices fully reflect all available information. The present study aims at testing the weak form of market efficiency of the individual stocks listed on the Bahrain Bourse...

The development of service sector is crucial in contributing to the GDP of any nation. The banking system plays an important role in the development of a country. The commercial banking system dominates the financial sector by dealing with the majority of financial transactions of a country. The...

This paper focuses on analysing the impact of financial and oil price crisis on the financial performance of selected banks in Bahrain.We selected a sample of seven commercial banks out of which three Islamic banks and four conventional banks. The study covered a period of eleven years, from...

The development of service sector is crucial in contributing to the GDP of any nation. The banking system plays a key role in the development of a country. The commercial banking system dominates the financial sector by dealing with the majority of financial transactions of a country. The...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the financial performance of retail and wholesale conventional banks in Bahrain. The study covers a period of five years from 2009 to 2013. Ratio analysis was used to analyse the comparative financial efficiency of banks under study and correlation...

Banking sector plays a leading role in financing a country's economic activities. Its performance is crucial in determining a country's economic growth. This paper examines the performance of commercial retail banks (conventional and Islamic) in Bahrain and financial ratios were used for the...

In financial literature we find numerous studies examining the presence of diverse types of calendar anomalies in different stock exchanges of the world. The current paper aims to investigate the month of the year effect in randomly selected ten companies from banking sector and service sector...