Managing U.S. Stock Market Oil Price Risk UsingExchange-Traded Funds
The broad range of viewpoints with respect to the effects of changing oil prices on U.S. stock markets leave equity portfolio managers puzzled about how changing oil prices are going to affect their portfolios and how and if they should try to manage oil price risk. This article seeks to help equity portfolio managers to better understand and manage oil price risk by studying and estimating the relationship between oil prices and sectors of the U.S. stock market, across several periods of time (not just during oil price shocks). Additionally, the authors test for and discover an exchange-traded fund (ETF) investment security that U.S. equity portfolio managers could use for managing oil price risk.
The aim of the research, which results are presented in this paper was answer the question: what was the impact of changes in aggregate M 3, interest rates, foreign exchange EUR/USD on the economic growth in the euro area in the period of 2008–2016. The econometric model VAR was applied in research. The Analysis of the model’s estimation results indicates that effectiveness of economic growth stimulation by quantitative easing and interest rate policy in the euro area was relatively very weak.