Finansų krizės poveikis Lietuvos vertybinių popierių rinkai

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to evaluate financial crisis impact on the Lithuanian stock market. Nowadays financial crisis of 2007-2010 is a very popular issue between society, government and financial institutions. Such an event changed everyone's daily routine. Besides, this important and specific crisis affected goals, strategies and plans of many institutions. After this crunch lots of investors started to doubt about the reliability of stock market. For this reason, the factors which make impact on the Lithuanian stock market, are determined and the characteristics of the period of 2003-2010 in the Lithuanian stock market are presented. The method of the moving averages is used in order to analyze the dynamics of the stock market and to forecast the perspectives of the market. The results of the research showed that the financial crisis made the biggest negative impact on the Lithuanian stock market during the year 2008. Despite this, the market is slowly recovering and it is possible that it will start to develop in the near future.