“…There are two main reasons for revisiting the relationship between the equity market and interest rates. First, a significant volume of literature developed by Chen, Roll and Ross (Chen et al, 1986), Campbell and Ammer (Campbell & Ammer, 1993), Thorbecke (Thorbecke, 1997), Laopodis (Laopodis, 2013), Huang et al (Huang et al, 2016), and Assefa et al (Assefa et al, 2017) focuses on the effects of macro-variables on stock prices.…”