“…Others argue that hedging activities by multinational firms have greatly reduced their exposure to foreign exchange risk, and stock returns reflect only the residual exposure net of hedging effects (Bartram and Bodnar, 2007;Bartram et al, 2010). Therefore, the relations between stock returns and currency values are weak (Fatemi et al, 1996;Jorion, 1991;Griffin and Stulz, 2001;Nieh and Lee, 2001;Williamson, 2001;Kollias et al, 2012). Jorion (1990) claims that significant exchange rate effects exist only in the stock prices of multinational firms with significant foreign operations.…”