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The objective of this research is to find impact of foreign direct investment on manufacturing industries in Oman. The study utilized a quantitative research method which applied primary and secondary data obtained from Oman's World Bank database (1984-2018). The primary data were collected from a research questionnaire administered to 410 respondents from nine industrial sectors, namely: Textile, Petroleum goods, Electronics, Automotive, Food & Beverages, Agriculture & Fishery, Publishing, Chemicals and Pharmaceutics. The results of this study also revealed that the spillover impacts on domestic companies, like novel technology, marketing strategies, organizational skills, money, jobs, export growth, diversifying of economy and greater competition, lead to enhanced domestic market efficiency and boosted productivity in skill-spreading host economies with the highest impact accompanied with Capital and Technology spillover.

This study examines the impact of federal funds rate on monthly stocks return of the United States of America. The study made use of secondary data from 31st January 1980 to 31st December 2009 gotten from Fred Economic Data and Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Ordinary Least Square Method was applied to perform the analysis using Eviews 9.0. The findings of this study reveal that before the crisis, the rate of interest significantly predicted monthly stock return while during the crisis; the rate of interest did not significantly predict monthly stock return. In addition, the growth rate of industrial production significantly predicted monthly stock return with while FFR did not significantly predict monthly stock return. Likewise, change in FFR significantly predicted monthly stock return while the growth rate of industrial production did not significantly predict monthly stock return.

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This paper examines the stock price movement and volatility in listed financial Omani Companies in MSM. The study made use of secondary data. This study is an attempt to answer these important questions, is there an effect of the announcement of the dividend policy on the market value of the shares of the Omani companies listed in MSM? Moreover, Is there any effect for each of the announcement of the earnings per share and distribution of profits on the market value of the shares of the Omani companies listed in MS at the level of each year of the study? The analytical descriptive approach was used to investigate. This study mainly depends on secondary data. The event study methodology is intended to investigate the effect of an event on a specific dependent variable. An “event” is the public announcement of a (usually voluntary) corporate action. In this considered corporate action is the dividend announcement. The abnormal return is calculated form 10 days prior to the event and 10 days post to the event.

The study investigates the influence of government expenditure (GE) on Oman’s economic growth by examining different government-spending dimensions as predictors of economic progression based on collected time-series data of Oman for 30 years. The study uses ‘Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag’ (ARDL) to assess the short-range and long-term effects of the dimensions on economic growth. GE, personal consumption expenditure and public debt are significant negative predictors of Oman’s economic progress in the long run. However, government and private consumption expenditures (PCEs) are significantly negative in the short run. Gross domestic investment is not a significant predictor in the long run, whereas public debt is a substantial positive predictor of Oman’s economic growth in the short run. The study will help policymakers recognize GE in Oman’s economic progression and development.

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