DO INTERNATIONAL GOLD PRICES AND NSE NIFTY 50 MOVE TOGETHER?

Abstract

With gold’s persistence performance over erratic periods since the catastrophic event of global financial crisis in 2008, attention is focussed on gold to substitute stock market investments in the times of crisis. Exploring such causal nexus between NSE NIFTY 50 index and Gold prices in Indiapost 2008 crisis is the main focus of the present research. The daily data of International Bloom berg Gold prices and NSE NIFTY 50 Index series has been used over the time period of November 13, 2008 to January 24, 2020. By applying unit root and Toda-Yamamoto granger causality test, study primarily shows stationarity of the variables at different order. The study evidenced the significant bidirectional short-run causal relationship in between NSE NIFTY 50 prices and International Gold prices. Hence, International Gold prices hold significant information which can be used to predict NSE NIFTY 50 returns and vice-versa. The results of present study can be used by Indian stock market policymakers to implement new structural restructuring to augment efficiency of Indian equity sector. Present study is limited in scope to account for gold’s nexus with only stock market index which in future can be furthered by establishing association with other commodity markets, mutual funds, exchange rate, derivative, etc.