“…However, it is seen that there are few studies on the subject in developing countries especially for Turkey. For instance, it is seen that some studies including of Murutoglu (1999), Alper (2000), Altug and Uluceviz (2011) and Atabek et al (2014) focus on creating of composite leading indicators, while Hacihasanoglu and Soytas (2011), Gulhan et al (2012), Topcu and Unlu (2013), Topcu (2014) and Eyuboglu and Eyuboglu (2019) try to analyze the relationship between composite leading indicators and stock market indices. In this section, we give information about the studies which examine the relationship between macroeconomic factors and stock markets at first and then deal with the studies the impacts of composite leading indicators on stock market indices in Turkey.…”