Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman

Gold has been used as money and most popular investment among all precious metal. Because of the special properties it could be used as a hedge against economic, political, social and currency. According to Wang (2013), gold is one of the hedging tools. In addition, gold investments are known as mos...

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Main Author: Mohd Kamaruzaman, Nur Adrianna
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spelling my-uitm-ir.575002022-04-22T00:19:28Z Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman 2018 Mohd Kamaruzaman, Nur Adrianna Macroeconomics Precious metals. Bullion Investment, capital formation, speculation Gold has been used as money and most popular investment among all precious metal. Because of the special properties it could be used as a hedge against economic, political, social and currency. According to Wang (2013), gold is one of the hedging tools. In addition, gold investments are known as most protected form of speculation. Tun. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad become a first prime minister in encourage the use of gold dinar in international trade. Gold price is affected by macroeconomics factors such as crude oil price, inflation rate, exchange rate, Gross Domestic Product(GDP) (Wang,2013). Gold is the most valuable item and easy to carry and tangible item. According to Worthington and Pahlavani (2006), gold has attracted people since thousands of years ago until this day unlike most other commodities, gold is a metal that is durable, easy to carry as well as universally accepted and validated. The time series data are been using for this study. Moreover, multiple linear regressions are used in this research to investigate the relationship between dependent variable which is gold price and the independent variables which is inflation rate, exchange rate, gross domestic product and crude palm oil price. The main findings suggest that the gold price is determined by these variables. The findings for this study are exchange rates and crude oil price shows a positive significant relationship on the gold price while the inflation rate and gross domestic product shows a negative relationship on the gold price 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57500/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57500/1/57500.pdf text en public degree UiTM Cawangan Johor Faculty of Business Administrations Harman, Mohd Hakimi
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Harman, Mohd Hakimi
topic Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
spellingShingle Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
Mohd Kamaruzaman, Nur Adrianna
Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman
description Gold has been used as money and most popular investment among all precious metal. Because of the special properties it could be used as a hedge against economic, political, social and currency. According to Wang (2013), gold is one of the hedging tools. In addition, gold investments are known as most protected form of speculation. Tun. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad become a first prime minister in encourage the use of gold dinar in international trade. Gold price is affected by macroeconomics factors such as crude oil price, inflation rate, exchange rate, Gross Domestic Product(GDP) (Wang,2013). Gold is the most valuable item and easy to carry and tangible item. According to Worthington and Pahlavani (2006), gold has attracted people since thousands of years ago until this day unlike most other commodities, gold is a metal that is durable, easy to carry as well as universally accepted and validated. The time series data are been using for this study. Moreover, multiple linear regressions are used in this research to investigate the relationship between dependent variable which is gold price and the independent variables which is inflation rate, exchange rate, gross domestic product and crude palm oil price. The main findings suggest that the gold price is determined by these variables. The findings for this study are exchange rates and crude oil price shows a positive significant relationship on the gold price while the inflation rate and gross domestic product shows a negative relationship on the gold price
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title Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman
title_short Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman
title_full Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman
title_fullStr Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of gold price in Malaysia/ Nur Adrianna Mohd Kamaruzaman
title_sort determinants of gold price in malaysia/ nur adrianna mohd kamaruzaman
granting_institution UiTM Cawangan Johor
granting_department Faculty of Business Administrations
publishDate 2018
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/57500/1/57500.pdf
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