The effect of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates on the returns of shares in capital goods companies in the Saudi financial marke

Abstract

This study examines the effect of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates (US dollar, Euro, and Indian rupees) on the stock return rates for capital goods companies in the Saudi financial market using monthly data during the period 2009-2019, and this study is based on the analysis using the common integration test self-regression model Distributed Slowdown (ARDL) presented by Pesaran et al 2001, and the experimental results of this study confirm that fluctuations in the exchange rate of the dollar and the Indian rupee have an impact on the rates of returns in the short term while there is no effect of the euro on the rates of return, and that The effect is limited to the short term and there is no effect of these variables on rates of return in the long run