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Impact of Interest Rate on Stock Market; Evidence from

Pakistani Market
Hamdan Ali
(MBA (C) - Finance) Foundation University Islamabad (Pakistan)

Abstract: This research paper was an endeavor to make a model, to find out the connection involving stock
market and interest rate (Pakistani market) and to run certain tests related to statistical analysis. These tests
run with the help of month end closing stock prices of Karachi Stock Exchange and interest rates of previous ten
years i.e. Jan 2004 to Dec 2013. Correlation, Regression analysis and descriptive analysis were run to find out
the blow of interest rate on stock market of Pakistan. Performance of Pakistani Stock market is highly
dependent on political situation. The most important factor of any country’s economy is its Stock market. But
there are certain factors which have negative and positive impact on stock markets. Here I am considering one
factor that has impact these are inversely related with each other i.e. one increases other decreases and vice
versa.
Keywords: Stock Market, Interest Rate, Karachi Stock Exchange and Stock Market Index.

I. Introduction
Stock exchanges are entity which provides dealing amenities for stash negotiator and dealer, to buy and
sell stocks and other securities. Pakistan Stock Market has three main stock markets KSE, LSE and ISE. Stock
interactions have numerous responsibilities in the financial system such as drumming up reserves for
speculation, assists corporation development, revenue sharing, chances for diminutive financiers.
Among these stock exchanges Karachi Stock Exchange is the oldest one which was time-honored on Sep 18,
1947 after two months of independence of Pakistan. It is growing day by day. Ups and downs come across KSE
in regular intervals due to Political instability, security threats and other macro-economical issues but nowadays
it is showing progress positively. There are two types of indexes; KSE-30 Index and KSE-100 Index.
KSE-30 index, 10K spots were launched as the support worth. It is somehow different from other types of
indices. The main difference is that it is supported by free float of splits instead of paid up assets.
KSE-100 index is rapidly growing index in Pakistan and it is known as emerging market of Asia. 2013 was the
best year in the history of Stock market of Pakistan. On December 31 st record of 25,261 points occurred which
is a great achievement. Here are five top companies in KSE-100 index with market capitalization and weight
age.

Market Capitalization (PKR)

No. Corporation Name Weight age (%)
in Million
1 OGDCL 14.14 550,949
2 MCB Bank 7.17 279,583
3 NBP 5.43 211,727
4 Pakistan Petroleum 5.06 197,201
5 SCB 4.41 171,705

This study determines the impact of interest rate on stock market of Pakistan. The selected market for detailed
analysis is stock market of Pakistan. This paper will analyze the effects of interest rate on stock market of
Pakistan. For this purpose, quantitative research method is used based on the data from 2004 to 2013 on
monthly basis. As sustain software, Microsoft Excel is used for a range of calculations. Hypothesis is tested
using Regression Analysis. The research reveals connection between interest rate and stock market. The most
important intention of this research is to study the relationship between Interest rate and stock market of
Pakistan.
Interest is a charge paid by a borrower of material goods to the owner as a type of return for the utilization of the
assets. It is basically the price paid for the use of owner‟s money or any material goods. It may be the money
earned by deposited finances for a certain period of time. Interest Rate is the price at which interest is paid by a
debtor for the utilization of money or any property that they borrow from a creditor. It is set for a period of time
mostly annually. E.g. if someone borrows one hundred rupees with the interest rate of nine percent per annum
then he has to pay one hundred nine rupees after one year.

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It is more uncertain for a country‟s stock market to have a high interest rate. It has also been found that on the
outcome of Interest rate; when it is raised, the general effect is a decrease of the amount of money in spread,
which helps to keep inflation near to the ground. It also makes borrowing money more difficult, which affects
the investment criteria of that country. Everyone will try to lend his assets on high interest rate. This increases
expenses for companies, decreases earnings somewhat for those with debt to pay. And the result will be the tuff
to take decision to invest in the stock market.
Research‟s objectives include: To know the relationship between interest rate and stock market, to
know the effect of interest rate on stock market and its performance and to enhance knowledge to take right
decisions if needed. The scope of the research is applicable to the stock market of Pakistan, as the primary data
collection due to the limited time and resources that are conducted in only one country. Moreover research has
given a good enough to guide the new researcher in this field and help the financial managers in planning and
organizing their investments. The shared financing policies in Pakistan are not very reverberation similarly
institutional growth is fewer viable. All these factors have led to a highly interest rate stock market and provide
the coherent for studying the interest rate effect in relation to the stock prices on the KSE. The time period is
spread over ten years (Jan 2004 to Dec 2013), so that the good time perspective is provided.

II. Literature Review

According to researchers of almost every era it is not wrong to say that stock market of any country
plays a vital role for economic growth. But there are many factors which do have an impact on stock market.
These factors may lessen the performance or may increase. Government of each country should enhance the
factors which enhance the performance of stock market and discourages those factors which have diverse impact
on stock market. As it is the study of interest rate and stock market I found from almost each and every paper
and article that interest rate has a negative impact on stock market. More the interest rate lessens the efficiency
of stock market. Some of reviews about these variables and relationship between these variables are discussed in
this paper which will help us to understand this topic more deeply.
Richid (1981) claims that predicted inflation is unenthusiastically interrelated with expected authentic activity,
which is at the same time positively correlated to stock market‟s returns. Thus, it can be said that stock market
returns is negatively correlated with expected inflation.
Campbell (1987) contends that variables which have been used to guess surplus returns should also foretell
excess stock returns. Ling (1990) premeditated expected inflation and stock market. He also focused the
relationship between each other.
Davidson (1996) hit upon the relationship between both variables. He used regression analysis to find
this relationship. He also come across that there is an important impact of interest rate on stock market. His
results were focusing on the long-term interest rates which play a fundament role of deviation in price dividend
ratios.
Kunt (1996) have found that countries with lesser interest rate have strong stock market as compared to
countries which have higher interest rate. They also mentioned that developed countries are usually having low
interest rates due which their stock market‟s performance is extra-ordinary.
Kelen (2000); they worked on developing markets i.e. Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana; where higher
interest rates think to a great loss for stock market and its prices. He concluded that there is a negative
relationship between both variables. Higher interest rate will deteriorate stock market.
Harasty and Roulet (2000) performed work on more than 17 countries i.e. developed ones. He finished with a
result that stock prices are incorporated with income from dividends and interest rate of each country he studied
except Italy.
Spyrou (2001) also worked to find out the relationship between inflation and stock returns of Greece.
He continued Kaul‟s research and came to know that these are negatively related but this conclusion was up to
1995 later on this relationship became irrelevant.
Arango (2002) studied Bogota stock market and he also found negative relation between both variables i.e.
stock market and interest rate but his findings didn‟t help out the central souk of Colombia.
Hsing (2004) used VAR model to find out the purpose and impact of different variables on each others. Variable
were interest rate, exchange rate and stock market. But he concluded the same result i.e. negative relationship
between stock market and interest rate.
Zordan (2005) worked with macro factors i.e. World War II and he also found opposite relation between both
variables. He also focused on cycle‟s research.
For example: ten to fifteen years etc.
SalahUddin (2009) studied two important factors which are involved in a country‟s growth or reduction i.e.
stock exchange and interest rate. Interest rate effects not only on stock market but monetary policy also.
SalahUddin investigated the impact of interest rate on stock market with the help of monthly data of almost
fifteen years and sample was also of fifteen countries few of them were developed and rests were developing.

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After his tests he concluded that there is a significant negative relationship between stock market and interest
rate. Zahid (2010) studied variables related to macro economics and stock market index. And he found that
impact of interest rate and inflation has negative impact on stock market. He also claimed that positive but not a
strong relation on stock market of Pakistan

III. Methodology
The data about relevant variables has been obtained from “Global economy, International Financial
Statistics (IFS), KSE, State Bank of Pakistan, International Monterey Funds (IMF) and other resources.” I will
investigate stock market of Pakistan and will gather the statistics ranging over a period of ten years preliminary
from 2004 to 2013. Applicable variables are: Interest Rate, Stock Market Index and Stock Market
Data collected from various resources for our research. Information is obtained by the help of articles, journals,
books, official websites, KSE, LSE, ISE, International Monetary Fund, Global Economy, colleagues, professors
etc. Data for literature review was gathered from Articles from Pakistan Development Review , KSE, Finance
books, Daily trading documents, Annual reports, State Bank of general Index of Share prices, , research articles
from various journals via online databases. I will also use different records and historical data. Moreover some
information was collected from different websites; the detailed references of these websites are given at the end.
I will examine the data of Stock market of ten years; 2004-2013. Quantitative research method is used for this
Research Paper.
The purpose of this research is to gather awareness through theories and information that already been
found out and then at last generate „hypothesis‟ from these studies and lay it in practical study. The money-
making speculation is mainly based on the studies from books, published articles and internet sites, trade with
economic subjects to give a theoretical base for the examination.
The research uses tools such as „Descriptive Statistics‟ and „Regression Analysis‟ and “Co-relation”.
Theoretical Framework: In this stride I will narrate Variables; dependent and independent variables which will
assist me as a foundation for the entire work. As I am assuming that variables are Stock Market; i.e. dependent
and independent variables are interest rate, inflation rate and gross domestic product growth rate.

Theoretical Work
The theoretical framework is the vivid demonstration of this affiliation consequent in the light of preceding
prose accessible; the research has well thought-out Stock market as a dependent variable and interest rate,
inflation rate and gross domestic product growth rate as the independent variables.
Purpose of Research is to find out the relationship between stock market and interest rate a hypothesis is used.
Here I also mentioned two expected hypotheses that will show relation between these variables. It was
unproblematic for me to make a research hypothesis. The relationships among the variables are recognized on
the origin of preceding literature presented. These relationships can be confirmed by means of definite
arithmetic tests/techniques. Two hypotheses are to be researched in order to find the relationship between two
variables. I will try to prove them with the help fonts and more by statistical apparatus.
Hypothesis; following are the two hypotheses which can be made by studying the literature review and
introduction.

Null Hypotheses (H0): There is no significant relationship between interest rate and the stock market.
Hypothesis (H1): There is significant relationship between interest rate and the stock market.
This research has been carried out with special orientation of stock market; stock market index used that was
readily available on KSE. Data is used on yearly basis as it was for ten years for more deep study. Sample size is
the stock market index and interest rates of 120 months. The study utilizes tools such as “Descriptive Statistics,
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Regression Analysis and Correlation”. The results of the study are expressed in “sets of tables”. To test the
hypothesis, the “Regression Analysis Model” will be used.

IV. Findings And Results

For findings and results I will run certain tests one by one mentioned below:
Descriptive Statistics, Correlation and Regression Analysis
Descriptive Statistics; as there are two variables so we will find descriptive statistics for everyone. Descriptive
statistics includes:

Mean
Standard Error
Median
Mode
Standard Deviation
Sample Variance
Kurtosis
Skewness
Range
Minimum
Maximum
Sum
Stock Market Interest Rate
Mean 11377.29 Mean 12.82
Standard Error 404.93 Standard Error 0.17
Median 10844.67 Median 12.96
Mode 7104.65 Mode 10.08
Standard Deviation 4435.77 Standard Deviation 1.90
Sample Variance 19676091.02 Sample Variance 3.62
Kurtosis 1.13 Kurtosis -1.00
Skewness 1.00 Skewness 0.16
Range 20420.77 Range 6.72
Minimum 4840.37 Minimum 10.08
Maximum 25261.14 Maximum 16.80
Sum 1365274.78 Sum 1538.76
Count 120.00 Count 120.00

Table 1: Descriptive analysis

Correlation; There are two types of correlation.
Direct correlation or constructive correlation and Indirect correlation or unconstructive correlation
I used Correlation to know the strength and direction between variables.
Stock Market Interest Rate
Stock Market 1
Interest Rate (0.25) 1
Table 2: Correlation between Variables
Below mentioned criteria indicates the intensity of relationship between variables.
Correlation < 0.20 Weak relation
Correlation ≥ 0.2 but < 0.5 Moderate relation
Correlation ≥ 0.5 up to 1 Strong relation
Table 3: Correlation Measures
From the above mentioned test we can say that there is a negative moderate relation between stock market and
interest rate. Moderate because its value is greater than 0.20 which is an indicator of moderate relation.
Regression Analysis; I find regression between dependent and independent variables. Regression includes
various factors like Multiple R, R square, Adjusted R square, Standard Error, and Number of observations, P-
Value, T- Stat, Coefficient and significance F.

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R Square is the descriptive replica that let us know that how much proportion of variation is explained by self-
sufficient variables. Coefficient shows the change in the dependent variable with the change of 1 unit in the
independent variables.
If significance F is less than or equal to 0.05 than it is significant and if it is greater than 0.05 then it is
insignificant.
Regression equation; A straightforward linear regression is a waning in which there is only one forecaster
variable. Simple linear regression is utilized in circumstances to estimate the linear association linking two
variables. A regression stripe is the line described by the equation and the regression equation is the formula for
the line.
Y (SMI) = α + β 1(interest rate) x

Y is a Dependent Variable
X is an Independent Variable
“a” is the intercept b is the slope,
x is the residual of regression.

Figure 1: Stock Market Index Residual Plot

SUMMARY
OUTPUT

Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.15
R Square 0.02
Adjusted R
Square 0.01
Standard
Error 0.69
Observations 120

ANOVA
Significance
df SS MS F F
Regression 1 34.05 54.1 2.74 0.10
Residual 118 45.78 53.2
Total 119 41.32

Standard P- Upper Lower Upper

Coefficients Error t Stat value Lower 95% 95% 95.0% 95.0%
Intercept 687.98 9.83 2.50 0.01 18.56 19.40 18.56 19.40
X Variable 1 351.19 22.14 1.66 0.10 -68.91 71.29 -68.91 71.29
Table 4: Regression Analysis
First come the R square; as it is regression of stock market index and interest rate of ten years on monthly basis.
After test we found that the value of R Square is 0.02 which means that two percent variation in stock market
index is explained by the interest rate. The values of Multiple R, adjusted R square and standard error are 0.15,
0.01 and 4403 respectively. The value of Significance F is less than 0.05 so we can say that relation is
significant, because anything less than 0.05 is called a significant and vice versa. Coefficient show the change
occurs in dependent variable with the 1 unit change in independent variable. E.g. one unit change in interest rate
represents 0.67 i.e. 67 percent change occurs in stock market index. P-value is less than 0.05 that shows a

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significant relationship between interest rate and stock market index. The higher interest rate can harm the
economy of any country.

V. Conclusion
From the previous studies and my findings now it is easy to say that interest rate has a negative impact
on stock market, higher the interest rate lower the efficiency of stock market, it is because if investors are
getting higher without taking any risk then why should they invest in stock market, so for a better economy the
ruling state should lower its interest rate so that economy of that country gets developed. It is not the only factor
that has negative impact on stock market there can be many other factors for example inflation rate etc which
are having negative impact on stock market.

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