The purpose of the study is to investigate whether there are any significant abnormal returns around the quarterly earnings announcement and to examine whether the semi-strong form of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) applies to the Indian stock market. This study focuses on the BSE200...

Market efficiency is examined in three forms: weak form, semi-strong form and strong form and each one deals with a different source of information. 1. Weak form efficient market - the prices of securities fully reflect all historical information and no excess returns can be earned by utilising...

This paper examines stock market reaction to the earnings announcements by taking December 2001 quarter earnings announcement as an event. The study is based on 152 companies having minimum 20 percent foreign holdings. The companies are divided into, good news, bad news and overall portfolios....