“…The relationship between stock prices and macroeconomic variables has been discussed all over the world. The growing linkages between macroeconomic variables and the movement of stock prices have well been documented in the literature over the last several years (Sadorsky, 2003;Chen, 2003;Hadi, Katircio glu, & Adaoglu, 2019;Katircio glu, Alkhazaleh, & Katircio glu, 2018;Katircio glu & Zabolotnov, 2019;Rezgallah, € Ozataç, & Katircio glu, 2019;Shaeri & Katircio glu, 2018). Campbell (1987Campbell ( , 1991, Fama and Schwert (1997) showed that short-and long-term interest rates have a modest degree of forecasting power for excess stock returns.…”