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The Behavior Of The Major And Sub-Sector Indices In Amman Stock Exchange During The Global Financial Crisis, Asaad H. Al-Ali
The Behavior Of The Major And Sub-Sector Indices In Amman Stock Exchange During The Global Financial Crisis, Asaad H. Al-Ali
Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات
This study aims to empirically examine the effect of global financial crisis (2008) on the performance of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) represented by the three general main indices viz., Free Float (FF), General Unweighted (UW), and Price Weighted (PW), and on the four sectoral indices , namely banking, insurance, services and industrial. The hypotheses were tested by investigating the differences in the three general market indices and the sectoral indices before and after the global financial crisis by applying the parametric paired sample t-test and the non-parametric Wilcoxon Matched-Paired Signed Ranks test. The time span was 116 trading days before …