This paper examines the long run relationship among equity market returns
and seven important macroeconomic variables which include industrial production,
Money Supply, , foreign portfolio investment, Treasury Bill Rates, oil prices,
foreign Exchange Rates and consumer price index for the period 6/1998 to 6 /2008
by using Multivariate Cointegration Analysis and Granger Causality Test. Result
provide evidence about existence of long run relationship among equity market and
macroeconomic variables and explains the impact of changes at macroeconomic
front on the stock market. Multivariate regression analysis provides evidence about
the presence of four cointegrating vectors among variables at the α = 0.05.
Maximum Eigen value test also confirms the results.