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Based on the consideration above, this research aims to answer these following questions:
1. How the interest rate, inflation, and exchange rate are influences the performance of a stock on consumption goods and property and real estate
sector in Indonesia stock exchange? 2. How much the influence of interest rate, inflation, and exchange rate
affected the performance of stock on consumption goods and property and real estate sector in Indonesia stock exchange?
C. Research Objectives
The objectives of this research are: 1. To identify the influence of interest rate, inflation, and exchange rate to the
performance of stock on consumption goods sector and property and real estate sector in Indonesia stock exchange.
2. To determine the extent to which interest rate, inflation and exchange rate influence the performance of stock on consumption goods sector and
property and real estate sector in Indonesia stock exchange.
D. Usefullness of the Research
In general, this research is expected to provide the significant contribution to investors especially the individual investors to have new insights regarding the
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perfect time to invest in the capital market given a current macroeconomic circumstances. This eventually will help investor in obtaining
their investments‟ risks manageable, which eventually will help in the improvement of the social economics
circumstances. Specifically, the benefits of research is diveded into three scope of areas, which are:
1. For the Author As for the author, this research is expected to enrich the author
‟s knowledge about investment in capital market, as well as macroeconomic
knowledges. This reserach is also expected to become a medium to implement lessons learned during the author
‟s study in the university. 2. For the Investor
As for the investor, this research attempts to help investor in increasing their knowledge about macroeconomic condition before they choose to
invest in the capital market. By examining the condition, investors could forecast their return in capital market. Thus, this is expected to help
investor minimize the risk of their investmrnt. 3. For academic purposes
This research aims to add the literature study for investor who wishes to know the influence of macroeconomic factors, such as interest rate,
inflation, and exchange rate to the rate of return in consumption good stocks and property and real estate stock. This study can be used as a
consideration before selecting the most appropriate stock for investor. Also, This research aims to add understanding for other researcher who
wishes to do research in the same field of study.
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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
