“…Ajmi et al (2014), Boldanov et al (2016a), Bašta and Molnár (2018), and Roubaud and Arouri (2018) have shown that correlation between oil and the related stock market performance are responsive to major economic and geopolitical events (see , , and Fang et al (2018)), such as the early-2000 recession, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Results upgraded by Zhang (2017) who considers the effect of oil price shocks and uncovers occasional yet very significant effects of oil price shocks on stock markets, Chen and Lv (2015), Zheng and Su (2017) and Bouri et al (2017) for China specifically (see Sanusi and Ahmad (2016) and Diaz and de Gracia (2017) for the effects of oil price shocks on stock returns of oil and gas corporations), and Boldanov et al (2016b), Ftiti et al (2016), Jammazi et al (2017, who consider a time-varying methodology in studying the relationship between oil price shocks and stock market returns in the BRICs (see Pönkä (2016), Luo and Qin (2017), Ping et al (2018), Mensi et al (2018), and Bouri et al (2018) or Evgenidis (2018) for the Euro Area and Caporin et al (2018) for the S&P 500 index) 1 . Boldanov et al (2016a) focus on six major oil-importing and oil-exporting countries with a Diag-BEKK model being employed over the January 2000 to December 2014.…”