As for the effect of macroeconomic variables such as money supply and interest rate on stock prices, the efficient market hypothesis suggests that competition among the profit-maximizing investors in an efficient market will ensure that all the relevant information currently known about changes in macroeconomic variables are fully reflected in current stock prices, so that investors will not be able to earn abnormal profit through prediction of the future stock market movements (Chong and Koh 2003). Therefore, since investment advisors would not be able to help investors earn above-average returns consistently, except through access to and employing insider information,.
