Objective – The purpose of this paper is to observe the volatile movement of the US dollar (‘USD') and its impact on the Malaysian stock market.Methodology/Technique – This study would look at how the USD had progressed and how it delivers a significant effect on the Malaysian stock...

Opacity fosters price contagion that exacerbates the speculative cycles of bubbles and crashes that create financial instability. We find that banks with larger investments in opaque assets benefitted more from intra-industry revaluations associated with announcements of mergers in the period...