scholarly journals The impact of Covid-19 on international financial markets: winners and losers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Gema Orihuel Bañuls

The pandemic caused by the SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19) virus has triggered a worldwide impact on the economy that has been firstly reflected in the financial markets‘ performance. As a consequence of this global health emergency, the world economy is going to deal with its greatest threat since the 2008 Financial Crisis. However, the collapse and recovery of countries and industries are likely to be divergent. This paper aims to provide a global picture of different stock exchange indexes’ progress, including SP 500, Eurostoxx 50, IBEX 35 and CSI 300. In addition, components‘ performance of the Eurostoxx 50 have been analyzed in order to gather more specific information regarding the Covid-19 impact in different industries. Results have revealed that recovery in some of the stock markets are due to large corporation’s resilience and some winning sectors. As a result, the economic recovery is taking the form of a "K".

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 1085-1090
Author(s):  
Harsh Vikram Arora ◽  

The COVID19 pandemic which came unprecedentedly has brought forward a lot of confusion and unrest in the world. There are a lot of changes with regard to the global landscape in multiple ways. SARS-CoV-2 is the primary virus, which is the root contributor to the COVID19 outbreak, which started in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. It did not take much time to spread across the world. This pandemic has resulted in a universal health crisis, along with a major decline in the global economy. One of the major reasons for the fluctuation in the stock price is supply and demand. When the number of people who want to sell their stocks outnumbers those who want to purchase it, the stock price drops. Due to the result in the gap, the financial markets will suffer in the short duration, but in the long run, markets will correct themselves and would increase again. There is a sharp decline in the stock price because of the pandemic. The current scenario has resulted in a world health crisis which has contributed to global and economic crises. Almost all financial markets across the world have been affected by the recent health crisis, with stock and bond values falling gradually and severely. In the United States, the Dow Jones and S& P 500 indices have fallen by more than 20%. The Shanghai Stock Exchange and the New York Dow Jones Stock Exchange both indicate that they had a significant impact on China’s and the United States’ financial markets. The primary purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of COVID19 on stock markets. The rapid spread of the virus has left a major impact on the global financial markets. There is a link between the pandemic and the stock market, and this has been studied in this paper. Along with it, an attempt is taken to compare stock price returns in pre-COVID19 and post-COVID19 scenarios. The stock market in India faced uncertainty during the pandemic, according to the findings.


2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-433
Author(s):  
Esther Jeffers ◽  
Dominique Plihon

The world economy has undergone major changes during the last twenty years. Financial markets have grown spectacularly on the international level. In particular, stock markets rose substantially in the 1990s. At the same time, the combined process of deregulation and financial innovations transformed the internationalization of financial activities into financial globalization, which witnessed a considerable strengthening of both the impact and freedom of action of the main players. France did not remain unaffected by this evolution, much the contrary. This was all the more impressive given the historical weakness of the country’s financial markets. Many studies have been devoted to the growth of financial markets and many others to corporate governance, but the influence of the capital structure and the forms of governance on corporate strategies have rarely been empirically evaluated in the literature, due to the scarcity of relevant data. This paper aims at understanding (I) how the capital structure of French corporations has changed and, through an empirical study, (II) how this change may have impacted their strategy


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Nadia Cheikh Rouhou ◽  
Fatma Wyème Ben Mrad Douagi ◽  
Khaled Hussainey ◽  
Ahmad Alqatan

The aim of this study is to investigate context, the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on the Key Performance Indicators’ (KPIs) disclosure quality in the United Kingdom (UK). We used the UK listed firms FTSE 350 in the stock exchange market during the pre-IFRS period and the post-IFRS period (2003 to 2004, and 2006 to 2013). In particular, we examine special events such as the emergence of the 2006 UK Accounting Standard Body (ASB) Guidelines for KPIs best practice, the 2010 IFRS Management Commentary, and the phenomenon of the 2008 financial crisis. The results of this paper show that the UK’s mandatory adoption of IFRS has had a positive and significant effect on the KPIs’ disclosure quality. The results demonstrate, also, that together with the emergence of the 2006 UK ASB Guidelines, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2010 IFRS Management Commentary have had a positive and significant influence on the quantity and quality of the KPIs’ disclosure.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taufeeque Ahmad Siddiqui ◽  
Haseen Ahmed ◽  
Mohammad Naushad

COVID-19 has impacted the world economy in an unprecedented manner; the financial markets indicate the same. This spontaneous event landed most of the stock markets into extreme volatility. Large capital outflow and extreme rapid fall were seen among almost all the world financial markets. Though similar trend prevailed everywhere during this pandemic, the impact could not be accumulated in absolute terms. Using the data of five stock markets, the current study endeavored to draw an impact of COVID-19 on major stock exchanges. The study uses wavelet coherency analysis on one-year daily data from June 2019 to May 2020 of five stock markets: Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), London Stock Exchange (LSE), NASDAQ, Tokyo Stock Exchange (Nikkei), and Shanghai Stock Exchange. It is observed that there are time-variation and scale-variation in co-movements between the studied markets. During the crisis, the co-movement concentrates on a short time scale, even for two days. These results have significant implications for international investors, which will help them in portfolio diversification with time elements. All the stock markets under study have indicated co-movement at different time scales and frequencies with varying cross-power levels. However, the concentration of co-movement is found the most between the UK and the US stock markets. It is the least between Japan and the UK. In BSE, co-movement at shorter time scales started late. NASDAQ is leading only in one case, i.e., Shanghai Stock Exchange. BSE is not leading any stock index. LSE is in the leading position in all four cases. It has also been observed that co-movement started to concentrate at a shorter time scale as soon as the impact of the crisis increased.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Barinov

The article examines the impact of the pandemic on the world economy. The impact of the OPEC+ oil agreement and the reduction of its production on financial markets and exchange rates is noted. Data are provided on the losses of a number of countries from the decline in prices for this energy carrier and the increase in the incidence of coronavirus infection in the population. The article analyzes the measures taken by Western countries and Russia to help national companies and populations affected by the pandemic.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Rabia Najaf

In this paper, we analyzed the impact of financial crisis on different countries by the using of E-GARCH model .our main finding is that in the financial crisis has impact on the stock exchange of different countries. We proved that due to financial crisis most of countries stock exchange have been affected badly. In the world,the American stock exchange was established in 1792. Two dozen brokers were started the stock trading.Now a day, 2,429 companies are listed under this stock exchange. The prime objective of the scholars is to find out the impact of financial crisis on the different stock market. Scholars have proved that financial crisis have always impacted on the financial markets.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Felicia Omowunmi Olokoyo ◽  
Babajide Michael Oyewo ◽  
Abiola A. Babajide

In the second half of 2008, the world experienced financial and economic storm. Value of investments crashed and investors lost money to the extent of their exposure to financial markets. In the light of gradual global economic recovery from the effect of the financial crisis in recent times, the research comparatively studied the attitude of investors to investments before and after the financial melt-down in Nigeria. Secondary data sourced from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the period 1961 to 2011 were analysed using statistical procedures such as correlation, multivariable regression and t-test. The study found out that there was significant change in the attitude of investors before and after the financial crisis to investments, as investors switched funds from capital market securities in favour of money market instruments which guaranteed fixed interest income. Despite the fact that the capital market is gradually recovering; investors still demonstrate low confidence in the market. It was therefore recommended that the NSE should strive to regain and retain common investors' confidence in the primary market through improvement in their corporate performance.


2019 ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Ershov ◽  
Anna S. Tanasova

Russian economy has reached the low level of inflation, but economic growth has not accelerated. Moreover, according to official forecasts, in the following years it will still be low. The article concludes that domestic demand, which is one of the main factors of growth, is significantly constrained by monetary, budgetary and fiscal spheres. The situation in the Russian economy is still hampered by the decline of the world economic growth. The prospects of financial markets are highly uncertain. This increases the possibility of crisis in the world. Leading countries widely use non-traditional measures to support their economies in the similar environment. In the world economy as well as in Russia a principally new combination of factors has emerged, which create specific features of economic growth. It requires special set of measures to stimulate such growth. The article proves that Russian regulators have large unused potential to stimulate growth. It includes monetization, long-money creation, budget and tax stimuli. It is important that the instruments, which will be used, should be based on domestic mechanisms. This will strengthen financial basis of the economy and may encourage economic growth. Some specific suggestions as to their use are made.


Author(s):  
Xueli Wei ◽  
Lijing Li ◽  
Fan Zhang

Pumping elephantThe COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the lives of people around the world in millions of ways . Due to this severe epidemic, all countries in the world have been affected by all aspects, mainly economic. It is widely discussed that the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the world economy. When considering this dimension, this study aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, socio-economics, and sustainability. In addition, the research focuses on multiple aspects of social well-being during the pandemic, such as employment, poverty, the status of women, food security, and global trade. To this end, the study used time series and cross-sectional analysis of the data. The second-hand data used in this study comes from the websites of major international organizations. From the analysis of secondary data, the conclusion of this article is that the impact of the pandemic is huge. The main finding of the thesis is that the social economy is affected by the pandemic, causing huge losses in terms of economic well-being and social capital.


1998 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Nigel Pain

Developments in the Asian economies have clearly begun to be felt in the wider global economy in recent months. It has always been expected that the OECD economies would be affected by the aftermath of the capital market turmoil last year, although the timing and magnitude of the impact was difficult to predict. Domestic demand in the affected Asian economies has proved much weaker than expected, with the effects magnified by a continued downturn in Japan. GDP fell by 5¾ per cent in Korea in the first quarter of this year and by 1¼ per cent in Japan. The aggregate volume of merchandise imports in Asia is expected to decline by around 5½ per cent this year, with falls of up to 25 per cent in countries such as Korea, Thailand and Indonesia. This largely accounts for our projected decline in world trade growth to under 6 per cent this year from an estimated 9¾ per cent in 1997.


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